Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Security)Experience Level: Senior Level | Posted Date: 2025-04-14
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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 our Team:
Join Grab's Security Engineer – When you're an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make on millions of lives on a daily basis. Our team is empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve millions of passengers, driving partners, and fellow Grabbers.
We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer with experience in development or automation to serve as a senior member of our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and leading high-quality security automation systems that protect Grab’s extensive infrastructure, which includes 800+ application services, 2,000+ databases, a multi-cloud environment spanning three providers, and over 750 million database IOPS daily. Your work will play a critical role in strengthening the security of Grab’s internal operational processes at scale.
You will play a key role in leading, designing, developing, and scaling solutions for proactive safeguards and sane defaults for platforms, container security, threat detection, automated incident response, and security monitoring across Grab’s ecosystem. Join us to drive innovation and automation in Grab’s security posture, ensuring a safer and more resilient environment for all our employees and systems.
Get to know the role:
We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to take charge of the Security Engineering initiatives. We believe a successful candidate has security engineering, infrastructure automation, integration, and development skills, but if you believe you have what it takes then we’d love to hear from you either way. This role is required because we are expanding our regional security engineering capabilities. In return, you will get an opportunity to work with and build a great team working on complex architectures and contributing to the security engineering of one of the largest cloud deployments in the region.
This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:
Design, implement, and maintain secure, accurate and reliable security platforms.
Interface with production engineering management to champion and ensure adoption of security standards and remediate security gaps.
Contribute to the building, operating and maintaining of the overall security infrastructure and services to improve Grab prevent, detect and response capabilities.
Lead a sub-discipline (cloud security, security operations, devsecops, security automation, and security architecture) within the Security Engineering team.
Own and ensure that internal and external SLA’s meet and exceed expectations, Security Engineering centric KPIs are continuously monitored and improved.
Create tools for automating deployment, monitoring and operations of the overall security platform.
Participate in on-call rotation to provide infrastructure support, incident management, and troubleshooting.
Provide ongoing maintenance and support of internal tools, improve system health and reliability.
What Essential Skills You Will Need:
Comfortable to code in at least one high-level programming language - JavaScript, Java, Python or Golang for scripting and automation
You have a proven track record of designing, developing, and implementing large-scale, available online services.
You have solid Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
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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.