Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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.

Get to Know the Team

Grab's SWAT/Cloud Infrastructure teams make cloud resources safer and easier for engineering teams to use. We build internal services for provisioning, access, connectivity and service lifecycle management, replacing manual processes with reliable self-service workflows. We also apply AI-assisted approaches where they can improve infrastructure operations without compromising security or human oversight.

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the services and automation behind Grab's cloud infrastructure platform. You'll lead the technical design of secure, reliable self-service workflows for cloud-resource access, connectivity and lifecycle management, while remaining hands-on with implementation and production operations. You'll work across engineering teams, guide design and code reviews, and help develop AI-assisted infrastructure tools with clear permission boundaries and verification.

This is a fully onsite role at our office in Petaling Jaya and will report to the Engineering Manager

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will lead the design and development of backend services and APIs used by engineering teams across Grab.
• You will automate resource provisioning, configuration and decommissioning with least-privilege access, auditability and safe handling of retries or duplicate requests.
• You will build reusable components for AI-assisted workflows, including context retrieval, tool integration, permission checks and evaluation.
• You will assess AI models and providers for suitability, reliability, latency, cost and safety while keeping integrations portable.
• You will define tests, observability, deployment and rollback practices for the services you own.
• You will participate in Cloud Infrastructure on-call duties, investigate incidents and drive corrective actions.
• You will lead technical discussions and code reviews, mentor engineers and improve engineering standards.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including designing and operating production backend services in Go, Python or a comparable language.
• Strong API design and failure-handling skills, with the ability to make and explain technical trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools, identity and access management, and cloud networking.
• Experience with automated testing, Git, CI/CD, Docker, production deployments and rollback.
• Experience building or integrating AI-assisted engineering workflows, including context management, tools, safeguards and evaluation.
• Ability to compare AI models, verify outputs and design appropriate fallbacks for production workflows.
• Experience debugging production systems with logs, metrics and alerts, and guiding other engineers through reviews and delivery.
• Preferred: Experience building self-service infrastructure platforms used by multiple engineering teams.
• Preferred: Experience operating containerised services on Kubernetes.

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.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.