Grab

Lead Platform Engineer, Flink

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2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead platform initiatives that make stream processing reliable, efficient, secure, and self-service across Grab.
  • Design and build abstractions, modules, and libraries that simplify Apache Flink adoption and reduce operational and security toil.
  • Improve automation and self-service workflows for operating production Flink pipelines at scale.
  • Lead technical design discussions, production-readiness reviews, incident learning, and long-term architecture improvements.
  • Partner with Kafka, data lake, metrics, and data governance teams to improve the reliability of real-time data pipelines.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, debugging sessions, code reviews, and operational best practices.

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years leading teams or projects in software engineering, data engineering, or platform engineering.
  • Have production experience building and operating stream processing pipelines, preferably with Apache Flink or Spark Streaming.
  • Have strong hands-on experience with Kafka and modern programming languages such as Scala or Java.
  • Have strong fundamentals in distributed systems, scalable data processing, reliability engineering, and production operations.
  • Be able to lead technical designs, mentor engineers, communicate trade-offs, and drive projects from design through production.
  • Experience with Kafka Connect, Kubernetes, Go, GitLab CI, AWS, or Terraform is preferred.
  • Experience building reusable platform abstractions, SDKs, deployment tooling, or self-service workflows is preferred.
  • Production Apache Flink experience involving high availability, checkpointing, safe deployments, and incident response is preferred.
  • Experience with data warehouse or data lake ecosystems such as Spark, Parquet, Iceberg, Delta, or Hudi is preferred.

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.
  • Full-time onsite work at Grab’s Singapore office in One North.

Tech Stack

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOps
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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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