Infra Engineer

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

The Service Mesh Engineering team is a dynamic and skilled group responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our service mesh infrastructure, which forms the backbone of our microservice architecture. We play a crucial role in managing service-to-service connectivity, securing traffic, providing observability metrics, and enhancing service resilience through proper use of Hystrix, timeouts, and rate limiting. Our team collaborates closely, leveraging expertise in networking, infrastructure, microservices, and more.

If you are passionate about driving innovation in designing and managing service mesh architecture and shaping service-to-service connectivity, this opportunity is for you!

Get to know the role

We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Infra Engineer to join our Service Mesh team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain our service mesh infrastructure, which forms the backbone of our microservice architecture. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing service-to-service communication, data plane, and control plane within a sophisticated cloud environment.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Architect, deploy, and manage service mesh infrastructure using technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, Consul.
• Work closely with development teams to understand and cater to their service communication needs in a microservices architecture.
• Implement and manage service discovery, load-balancing, traffic management, and observability within the service mesh.
• Ensure secure inter-service communication with mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) policies and access control.
• Respond promptly to service interruptions and assist in capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Proactively monitor service operations to detect and troubleshoot potential issues.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our DevOps practices.
  
  

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in managing microservices architecture.
• Familiar with network protocols like HTTP, TCP/IP, and gRPC.
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD tools, infrastructure as code etc.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python or Java.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, strong written and oral communication skills, along with the ability to work in a team.
• At our company, you will be part of a culture that values innovative problem-solving, open communication, and diverse, forward-thinking teams. If you thrive in a challenging technological environment, we would love to hear from you!
  
  

Nice to haves

• Familiarity with service mesh technologies like istio, linkerd, consul etc Knowledge and experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.
• Familiarity with cloud-native stack and cloud-based environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong understanding of security practices. Strong written and oral communication skills, along with the ability to work in a team.
  
  

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.
  
  

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, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.