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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.\n Get to Know the Team\nGrabDefence builds technology that helps protect users and businesses from fraud and abuse. Our engineers work across security, infrastructure and product teams to support reliable systems that can scale with evolving threats.\nYou will join a team that values shared ownership and continuous improvement. Your work will help engineers manage infrastructure securely and spend more time building capabilities that protect customers.\nGet to Know the Role\nAs a Lead Software Reliability Engineer, you will drive the infrastructure and operational tooling that support GrabDefence. 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