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 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 Security Engineer, Backend with experience in development or automation to join our team. You will build high-quality security automation systems that protect Grab's infrastructure, which includes 800+ application services, 2,000+ databases, a multi-cloud environment spanning three providers, and over 750 million database IOPS daily. Your contributions will help enhance the security of Grab's internal operational processes at scale.

You will help develop, and scaling solutions for proactive threat detection, automated incident response, and security monitoring across Grab's ecosystem.

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You will design, implement, and maintain secure, accurate and reliable security platforms.
• You will partner with production engineering management to promote and ensure adoption of security standards and improve security gaps.
• You will contribute to the building, operating and maintaining of the security infrastructure and services to improve Grab prevent, detect and response capabilities.
• You will oversee and ensure that internal and external SLA's meet and, Security Engineering centric KPIs are monitored and improved.
• You will create tools for automating deployment, monitoring and operations of the security platform.
• You will participate in on-call rotation to provide infrastructure support, incident management, and troubleshooting.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, writing production code.
• You have proficiency in security scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
• You have incident response and threat hunting skills
• You proficient in at least one backend language, such as Go, Scala, Java, C++, or others.
• You have familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
• You have knowledge of software development best practices, including version control using Git, unit testing, and CI/CD pipelines.

Good to Have:

• You have experience with cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container security
• You have experience of security technologies (firewalls, EDR, SIEM, IAM, encryption)
• You have experience with common attack vectors and defense strategies
• You have professional certifications preferred (CISSP, CEH, Security+, GIAC certifications)
• You have hands-on experience with vulnerability assessment tools and techniques

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.