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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\nGrab's Security Engineering team builds the tools, processes, and guardrails that help engineers move quickly and securely. We work with teams across infrastructure, backend, frontend, and mobile engineering to strengthen the software development lifecycle-from secure delivery pipelines to threat detection and reusable security capabilities. Our work supports hundreds of engineers building services used by millions of people.\nGet to Know the Role\nYou will set the technical direction for Security Engineering and lead an organisation of approximately 15-20 engineers, including engineering managers and senior individual contributors. 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