Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

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

Grab's SWAT/Cloud Infrastructure teams make cloud resources safer and easier for engineering teams to use. We build internal services for provisioning, access, connectivity and service lifecycle management, replacing manual processes with reliable self-service workflows. We also apply AI-assisted approaches where they can improve infrastructure operations without compromising security or human oversight.

Get to Know the Role

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join Grab's Cloud Platform team in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. You'll build and maintain the services and automation that help engineering teams provision, access and manage cloud resources safely. Working with Cloud Infrastructure and partner teams, you'll turn manual processes into reliable self-service workflows, improve production systems and explore AI-assisted tools with appropriate safeguards and human oversight.

This is a fully onsite role at our office in Petaling Jaya and will report to the Engineering Manager

This is a contract role for 24 months.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will develop and maintain backend services and APIs for cloud-resource access, connectivity and lifecycle management.
• You will automate resource provisioning, configuration and decommissioning, with appropriate validation, access controls and failure handling.
• You will build scalable solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure using infrastructure-as-code practices.
• You will develop and operate containerised applications, and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable deployments.
• You will write maintainable code and automated tests; contribute to system design and code reviews.
• Improve service observability and performance using logs, metrics and alerts.
• You will investigate production issues, participate in on-call duties and deliver lasting fixes.
• Contribute to AI-assisted infrastructure workflows, testing integrations and verifying outputs before operational use.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have 1+ years of professional software development experience, including building and testing production backend services in Go, Python or a comparable language.
• You have experience designing APIs and applying sound software design, data structure and testing practices.
• You have experience with containers, Git, CI/CD pipelines and safe deployment practices.
• Ability to build reliable automation that handles validation, retries, partial failures and appropriate access controls.
• Experience with, or a sound understanding of, AI-assisted workflows, including tool integration, safeguards and evaluation. You can assess model limitations and verify outputs before use.
• Ability to investigate production issues using logs, metrics and alerts, and communicate findings with other engineers.
• Preferred: Working knowledge of AWS or Azure, cloud networking, identity and access management, and infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Preferred: Experience operating services on Kubernetes.
• Preferred: Familiarity with relational or non-relational databases where needed by backend services.
• Preferred: Experience building self-service infrastructure tools or improving cloud-resource efficiency.

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.