Software Engineer, Backend

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

The Service Mesh Engineering team is a dynamic and experienced group responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our service mesh infrastructure, which forms the backbone of our microservice architecture. We help manage service-to-service connectivity, securing traffic, providing observability metrics, and enhancing service through proper use of Hystrix, timeouts, and rate limiting. Our team collaborates, leveraging expertise in networking, infrastructure, microservices, and more. If you are passionate about driving innovation in designing and managing service mesh architecture and shaping service-to-service connectivity, this opportunity is for you!

Get to know the role

We are looking for a experienced and enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our Service Mesh team. You will be reporting to Senior Software Engineering Manager. You will design, build, and maintain our service mesh infrastructure, which forms the backbone of our microservice architecture. You have experience managing service-to-service communication, data plane, and control plane within a cloud environment.

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Architect, deploy, and manage service mesh infrastructure using technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, Consul.
• You will work with development teams to understand and cater to their service communication need in a microservices architecture.
• You will implement and manage service discovery, load-balancing, traffic management, and observability within the service mesh.
• You will ensure secure inter-service communication with mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) policies and access control.
• You will respond promptly to service interruptions and assist in capacity planning and performance tuning.
• You will monitor service operations to detect and troubleshoot potential issues.Contribute to the continuous improvement of our DevOps practices.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 1+ years of experience managing microservices architecture.
• You have proficiency in any programming languages and willing to work with Go
• You have familiar with network protocols like HTTP, TCP/IP, and gRPC.
• You have experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD tools, infrastructure as code etc.

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.
• 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.