Senior Software Engineer, Customer Data Platform at Grab

Role overview

We are looking for a Technical Lead for either Scribe or CDP team that has a strong breadth of different technical stacks.

You will report to Engineering Manager in Singapore and work onsite at Grab Vietnam office (District 7, HCMC).

The Critical Tasks You Will Carry out.

Responsibilities

• Clickstream Intelligence Platform (Scribe) is Grab's in-house app instrumentation and insights platform that captures and analyzes user clickstream activity across all Grab apps. The platform supports observability, real-time personalization, and business analytics by processing tens of billions of events per hour at petabyte scale.
• Customer Data Platform (CDP) enables Grab Teams to onboard and register Grab's customer data and make it available for Online Serving, ML Models, Segmentation, and Real-time targeting to power personalization use cases across the company. Our platform is leveraged across many mission-critical Grab services such as app personalization, experimentation, ads serving, and marketing.
• Web Portal: React.JS and Golang Backend.
• Online Serving: AWS infrastructure, MySQL, Redis, AWS Dynamo DB, Scylla DB.
• Data Processing / Storage: Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Trino, StarRocks, Hive, and Delta Lake.
• Applied AI / ML: LLM, Python Backend, Vector DB.
• Build platform capabilities to facilitate scalable onboarding of user data that can be easily re-used across the company.
• Improve the serving capabilities of CDP's user data.
• Develop scalable real-time data pipelines and architecture that is cost efficient, while allowing non-technical teams to use these real-time capabilities.
• Lead an engineering team with diverse technical stacks.

Qualifications

• (Optional) A big plus if you have.
• Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related undergraduate degree.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering with experience leading an engineering team with diverse skillsets.
• Proficient or willing to learn one of the following programing languages: Python, Go, or Scala.
• Experience developing large-scale backend systems and has good understanding of technical trade offs and evaluations needed to allow high load, low latency systems, while maintaining system reliability and cost efficiency.
• Experience building APIs, working with OLTP DBs, and operating in a distributed systems environment.
• Strong English communications with prior work experience in regional and global environment.
• experience in Apache Flink (for real-time processing) and Apache Spark (for batch processing).
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools, AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

Technology in this role

• Python: Python React AWS Kubernetes .
• React: Python React AWS Kubernetes .
• AWS: Python React AWS Kubernetes .
• Kubernetes: Python React AWS Kubernetes .
• Go: Python React AWS Kubernetes .
• Golang: Web Portal: React.JS and Golang .
• Scala: Proficient or willing to learn one of the following programing languages: Python, Go, or .
• MySQL: Online Serving: AWS infrastructure, MySQL, Redis, AWS Dynamo DB, Scylla .
• Redis: Online Serving: AWS infrastructure, MySQL, Redis, AWS Dynamo DB, Scylla .
• Spark: Data Processing / Storage: Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Trino, StarRocks, Hive, and Delta .
• LLM: Applied AI / ML: LLM, Python Backend, Vector .
• Terraform: Proficiency in CI/CD tools, AWS, Terraform, and .
• CI/CD: Proficiency in CI/CD tools, AWS, Terraform, and .
• CAN: Build platform capabilities to facilitate scalable onboarding of user data that can be easily re-used across the .
• Hive: Data Processing / Storage: Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Trino, StarRocks, Hive, and Delta .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Senior Software Engineer, Customer Data Platform position at Grab is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “We are looking for a Technical Lead for either Scribe or CDP team that has a strong breadth of different technical stacks.” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the platform and infrastructure area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may.

Benefits

• We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer.
• We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and Carry out 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.
• 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.

About Grab

Grab operates digital services across Southeast Asia. Its engineering teams build products and internal platforms used across the business.

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