Senior Backend & Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• You will collaborate with Android/IOS/Backend/QA/ML Engineers to brainstorm and implement technical solutions that are scalable and addressing the actual problems.
• You will write code that is reusable, scalable and testable.
• Make sure features are delivered on time and with high quality.
• You will review code and engineering specs, provide constructive feedback and aim to raise the engineering bar.
• You will be responsible and responsive during on-call duty.
• Triage, debug, mitigate and fix complex issues.
• Assist on ad hoc queries from other teams.
• You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's overall growth and knowledge sharing

What Essential

Skills You Will Need You have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field You have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems environments You have proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Go, C++, Python, or similar) You have experience with computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and system design principles You have experience designing and operating high-throughput or real-time distributed systems. You understand production failure modes, including partial failures, timeouts, retries, duplicate events, eventual consistency, and dependency degradation. You have solid knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, or similar) You have hands-on experience with production observability, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and runbooks. You understand reliability practices such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, safe deployments, rollback strategies, capacity planning, and postmortem follow ups. You have experience with cloud infrastructure, like AWS, and modern delivery practices such as CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure automation. You collaborate effectively across engineering and non-engineering functions, communicate technical trade-offs clearly, and take ownership of outcomes.

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.

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