Job Description

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.

Get to know the team
Join Grab's Security Engineering Team - When you're an engineer at Grab, you are part of the heart and soul of the company. You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II. 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. We are empowered by creating amazing services and tools that serve millions of passengers, driving partners, and fellow Grabbers.
Get to know the role
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead our Development Team for Security Engineering projects. You will be responsible for building, growing, and leading a team of engineers dedicated to developing high-quality security automation systems that safeguard Grab's ecosystem, which includes 800+ application services, 2,000+ databases, a multi-cloud infrastructure spanning three providers, and over 750 million database IOPS daily.
You will help lead, 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. If you interested (even if you don't check all tickboxes) then we'd love to hear from you.
This role is onsite in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will lead a team of engineers across different tech stacks. We are looking for a hands-on approach where you will still contribute to the codebase with your team.
• You'll work with leaders to shape the product roadmap, set customer metrics, and plan experiments.
• You will initiate company-wide engineering projects with senior leaders.
• You will set the engineering strategy and target outcomes for the team, improving testability, availability, security and code quality for your systems and modules
• You will grow senior engineering talent across Grab.

Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You're comfortable getting hands-on with coding and know your way around modern programming languages and frameworks.
• You have at least 5+ years to engineering experience on web, mobile, backend or infrastructure technologies. During this time, you have been able to develop several large-scale applications.
• You have experience as a successful software engineer manager or tech lead. Experience mentoring engineers is critical for this role.

Good to have:

• You have knowledge of Cloud Security and understanding of Security Operations, DevSecOps, or Security Automation
• You have experience of security technologies (firewalls, EDR, SIEM, IAM, encryption)
• You have experience with common attack vectors and defense strategies
• Professional certifications preferred (CISSP, CEH, Security+, GIAC certifications)
• You have experience with DevSecOps tools, design, automation and CI/CD tools, including IaC (Infrastructure as Code), GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, application containers, and IAM (Identity and Access Management) in AWS and Azure.
• You have experience with Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Containers
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
• You have hands-on experience with vulnerability assessment tools and techniques
• You have familiarity with risk assessment and threat modelling techniques, static (code repositories scanning and secrets management) and dynamic code security analysis and testing, software composition analysis, and API security.

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.
• 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.