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Lead Software Engineer, Scribe

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2 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and roadmap for Scribe’s ingestion gateway, event-lifecycle services, streaming and data-lake pipelines, and Portal and MCP APIs.
  • Lead Project MEGA, including typed specifications, producer-side validation, CI guardrails, and agent-driven migration of legacy events.
  • Design and deliver a governed clickstream data layer and event vocabulary for funnel analytics and user-understanding use cases.
  • Own platform cost management through event lineage, automated deprecation, retention policies, gateway right-sizing, stream retirement, and chargeback.
  • Write RFCs, drive cross-team technical decisions, and represent Scribe in architecture and operational-excellence reviews.
  • Own on-call, incident response, post-mortems, fire drills, SLA monitoring, and data-loss monitoring for the platform.
  • Lead and mentor engineers across diverse technical stacks and develop future technical leads.

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including technical lead or architect experience for a platform used by many teams.
  • Proficiency in Go or willingness to learn it, with hands-on experience in Python or Scala.
  • Experience developing large-scale backend and streaming systems for high-load, low-latency, reliable, and cost-efficient operation.
  • Experience defining and enforcing data contracts or schemas across many producer teams, including versioning, migration, and deprecation.
  • Experience owning cloud costs for a large AWS data platform, including attribution, retention, right-sizing, and measured savings.
  • Experience with Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Iceberg, or Delta Lake is preferred.
  • Experience applying LLM agents to engineering workflows, including code migration, MCP servers, evaluations, and guardrails, is preferred.
  • Experience with mobile analytics instrumentation or clickstream analytics platforms is preferred.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD tools, Terraform, and Kubernetes is preferred.

Benefits

  • Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • GrabFlex benefits package customization.
  • Parental leave, Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all volunteering leave.
  • Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.
  • FlexWork arrangements with differentiated hours.
  • Onsite work at Grab’s Singapore office in One-North.

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About Grab

10,000+ employees

Grab builds a Southeast Asia superapp for mobility, deliveries, and financial services, serving consumers, drivers, merchants, and enterprises. It monetizes via ride and delivery commissions, merchant services (such as ads and subscriptions), and payments and digital banking products. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, Grab operates across multiple Southeast Asian markets and is publicly listed on NASDAQ.

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