Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience at Kudo

Singapore, , Singapore -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

20 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

22 Oct, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Networking, Storage, Security, Production Code, Infrastructure Automation, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operators, Complex Infrastructure Projects, Technical Leadership, Golang, Python

Industry

Software Development

Description

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 Developer Experience is focused on building platforms that help improve developer productivity in Grab. Our platforms are used by hundreds of engineers in Grab. We build tools and platforms to help Grab engineers build their applications quickly and safely, improve the testing process and quality of their apps, increase security and observability of our applications in production, create end-to-end automation for different workflows, and provide the underlying compute platform that runs the majority of the services that powers the millions of transactions that happens in the Grab ecosystem. Get to Know the Role As a Principal Software Engineer, your primary scope is to architect and govern the core platforms that support over 1,000 Grab services, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure. You will report to the Head of Engineering, Deploy, MEKS & Nexus; and will be onsite at Grab office. The Critical Tasks You Will Perform Be an architect leading the design and implementation across several teams, with a focus on Security Engineering, Deployment Automation, and Service Management, ensuring scalability, reliability for 1000 Grab services running on our platforms. Be an architect leading the design and implementation across several teams, with a focus on Security Engineering, Deployment Automation, and Service Management, ensuring scalability, reliability for 1000 Grab services running on our platforms. Execute strategies that will involve writing and reviewing production code, and reviewing design and architecture of systems and platforms developed on the Cloud. Collaborate with teams to improve performance, security, cost of our platforms, while improving internal team efficiency, reducing toil and driving wider adoption of our platforms. Be a technical leader, reviewing architecture proposals, code, and operational processes to ensure alignment with Grab's standards for large-scale systems. Partner with engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives for microservices and LLM workloads. Champion a culture of learning and engineering excellence, mentoring junior engineers and fostering collaboration across teams. Qualifications What Essential Skills You Will Need 8+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure engineering, with experience delivering large-scale applications. Expertise in public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, storage, and security. Expertise in writing production-code that has operated at scale. Proficiency in IaaS tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Puppet) for infrastructure automation and management. Knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) and managed Kubernetes platforms (e.g., EKS, GKE, AKS), including cluster management, networking, and security. Experience developing or customising Kubernetes Operators and CRDs. Complex infrastructure projects from brainstorming to execution, spanning multiple teams and technologies. Balance technical depth with strategic leadership. Experience simplifying the explanation of complex technical concepts. Golang & Python knowledge. 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 enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

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Responsibilities

Architect and govern core platforms that support over 1,000 Grab services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. Collaborate with teams to improve performance, security, and cost of platforms while driving wider adoption.