24 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and roadmap for Scribe’s ingestion gateway, event-lifecycle services, streaming and data-lake pipelines, and platform 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 cloud cost management through event lineage, automated deprecation, retention policies, gateway right-sizing, and legacy stream retirement.
- Write RFCs, drive cross-team technical decisions, and represent Scribe in architecture and operational-excellence reviews.
- Own on-call processes, incident response, post-mortems, fire drills, SLA monitoring, and data-loss monitoring.
- Lead and mentor an engineering team while developing future technical leads.
Requirements
- An undergraduate degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including experience as a technical lead or architect for a platform used by many teams.
- Proficiency in Go, or willingness to learn it, plus hands-on experience with 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 advantageous.
- Experience applying LLM agents to engineering workflows, including code migration, MCP servers, evaluations, and guardrails is advantageous.
- Experience with mobile analytics instrumentation or clickstream analytics platforms is advantageous.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools, Terraform, and Kubernetes is advantageous.
Benefits
- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- GrabFlex benefits customization.
- Parental leave, Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all volunteering leave.
- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.
- FlexWork arrangements with differentiated hours.
- The role works onsite at Grab’s Singapore office in One-North.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Grab
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.