Lead Software Engineer, Backend at Grab

Seniority in posting: senior

Setup: On-site
Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Jul 17, 2026

Description

Grab is hiring an experienced Platform Engineer to build, operate, and maintain gateway systems, service-mesh connectivity, scalable network traffic routing, analytics, control-plane and data-plane components, and production incident resolution. The role is onsite at Grab's Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office and requires distributed-systems expertise, programming in languages such as Go, C/C++, or Java, knowledge of TCP/IP and HTTP, and experience with Kubernetes, Bash, Python, JavaScript, and related infrastructure technologies.

Required Skills

TCP/IP
HTTP
Distributed systems
Kubernetes
Go
C/C++
Python
JavaScript
Bash
Service mesh
Terraform
Docker

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Experience designing and building distributed systems
Front-end development experience
Experience leading complex technical projects involving multiple partners
Experience proposing and leading end-to-end engineering projects
Experience with AI/LLM technologies and agentic workflows
Preferred Qualifications: Expertise in HTTP/2, QUIC, and gRPC
Experience designing systems for massive concurrency and scalable algorithms
Experience building monitoring and alerting systems
Hands-on experience with Terraform and large-scale Docker/Kubernetes deployments
Experience with Consul or Envoy
Experience working in a startup environment
Translation Company Name: Grab