Senior Software Engineer

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.

Get to Know the Team

We work with Security Operations, incident responders, platform teams, and other cyber functions to automate manual and complex security processes through reusable services, integrations, and workflows. We also turn telemetry, threat intelligence, incident findings, and purple-team findings into high-fidelity detections and automated responses. Using detection-as-code across SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and security data lake platforms, we support security visibility and signal quality. Additionally, we support detection coverage and response across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, and identity environments.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to build and operate scalable security observability platforms, detection pipelines, response automation, integrations, and backend services. Reporting to the Security Engineering Manager for Security Automation and Detection Engineering, you will work across discovery, design, implementation, and operations. You will improve security telemetry collection, normalisation, and enrichment while advocating detection capabilities into engineering platforms.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Develop, test, deploy, and operate scalable security observability platforms, detection pipelines, automation workflows, APIs, and backend services.
• Partner with security, application, platform, and infrastructure teams to identify inefficient processes and deliver automation that fits Grab's engineering ecosystem.
• Integrate SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud services, security data lakes, and observability tools while advocating detection and response into cloud, CI/CD, and developer platforms.
• Build capabilities for telemetry collection and enrichment, detection-as-code, alert assessment, investigation, case management, containment, and automated response.
• Engineer services for code quality, automated testing, observability, reliability, performance, and operational support at high telemetry volumes.
• Evaluate latest and open-source security technologies, contribute improvements, and integrate suitable capabilities into production workflows.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, or a related field.
• At least six years of software-engineering experience, with computer-science fundamentals and experience designing and operating production systems.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, with the willingness to work in Go and Python.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, integrations, and data-processing workflows.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and NoSQL technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, version control, code review, observability, reliability, scalability, and incident troubleshooting.
• AI fluency, including responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools and critical evaluation of generated outputs.
• Prior experience with cybersecurity concepts, tools, or practices is an advantage.

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 provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.