Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Grab
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:
Service mesh team is in charge of providing solution to build service to service connection across multiple microservices under Grab eco-system.
Get to Know the Role:
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will report to Senior Software Engineering Manager, and you will design, build, and maintain our service mesh infrastructure that forms the backbone of our microservice architecture. You will experience in managing service-to-service communication, data plane, and control plane within a sophisticated cloud environment.
The Critical Tasks You will Perform:
- You will architect, deploy, and manage service mesh infrastructure using technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, Consul, or AWS App Mesh.
- You will work closely with development teams to understand and cater to their service communication needs in a microservices architecture.
- You will implement and manage service discovery, load-balancing, traffic management, and observability within the service mesh.
- You will ensure secure inter-service communication with mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) policies and access control.
- You will respond promptly to service interruptions and help with capacity planning and performance tuning.
- You will proactively monitor service operations to detect and troubleshoot potential issues.
- You will contribute to the continuous improvement of our DevOps practices.
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- At least 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, Java, or Python.
- 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).
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.
