Company Description
About Grab and Our Workplace
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.
Job Description
Get to Know the Team:
Service mesh team is in charge of providing solution to build service to service connection across multiple microservices under Grab eco-system.
Get to Know the Role:
We are looking for a experienced and enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will develop our service mesh infrastructure that forms the backbone of our microservice architecture. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager. You will have experience managing service-to-service communication, data plane, and control plane within a cloud environment.
This role is based in Petaling Jaya and hybrid.
The Critical Tasks You will Perform:
- You will manage service mesh infrastructure using technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, Consul, or AWS App Mesh.
- You will work with development teams to understand and cater to their service communication needs in a microservices architecture.
- You will manage service discovery, load-balancing, traffic management, and observability within the service mesh.
- You will ensure secure inter with mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) policies and access control.
- You will respond promptly to service interruptions and help with capacity planning and performance tuning.
- You will monitor service operations to detect and troubleshoot potential issues.
- You will contribute to the continuous improvement of our DevOps practices.
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- You have 4 years of experience managing microservices architecture.
- You have familiarity in network protocols like HTTP, TCP/IP, and gRPC.
- You have knowledge of software development best practices. This includes version control (specifically Git), unit testing, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, infrastructure as code.
- You have proficiency in any programming languages but must willing to work with Go.
- You have familiarity with service mesh technologies like istio, linkerd, consul
- You have experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.
- You have familiarity with cloud-native and cloud-based environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
Additional Information
Life at Grab
We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:
- We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
- Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
- We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
What we stand for at Grab
We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.
Top Skills
What We Do
Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, offering a suite of services consisting of deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and others. Grabbers come from all over the world, and we are united by a common mission: to drive Southeast Asia forward by creating economic empowerment for everyone.
At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which explains our mission and the operating principles on how we can achieve it together. We call these principles the 4Hs:
Heart
We work together as OneGrab to serve communities in Southeast Asia
Hunger
We work to understand ground truths and drive improvements, big and small
Honour
We keep our word and steward our resources wisely to build and sustain trust
Humility
We are a constant work-in-progress, and we never stop learning to get better