Grab Hiring! Full Time Senior Software Engineer, Customer Data Platform in Selangor - Ricebowl

Get to Know the Team

1. Clickstream Intelligence Platform (Scribe) is Grab's in-house app instrumentation and insights platform that captures and analyzes user clickstream activity across all Grab apps. The platform supports observability, real-time personalization, and business analytics by processing tens of billions of events per hour at petabyte scale.
2. Customer Data Platform (CDP) enables Grab Teams to onboard and register Grab's customer data and make it available for Online Serving, ML Models, Segmentation, and Real Time targeting to power personalization use cases across the company. Our platform is used across many mission-critical Grab services such as app personalization, experimentation, ads serving, and marketing.

Candidate will be considered for both teams within our org.

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for either the Scribe or CDP team that that has multiple different technical stacks:

• Programming Languages: Python, Go, Scala
• Data Streaming & Processing: Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark
• Data Infrastructure & Tooling: Event gateways, Schema validation tools, Instrumentation testing frameworks

You will report to Engineering Manager II in Singapore and work onsite at Grab Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and improve clickstream data pipelines—from event ingestion to insight delivery—and contribute to services/tools for understanding user behavior.
• Build scalable platform capabilities for user data onboarding, online serving, and real-time data pipelines/architecture.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related undergraduate degree.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
• Proficient in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Go, or Scala
• Experience developing large-scale backend or data systems and has good understanding of technical trade offs and evaluations needed to enable high load, low latency systems, while maintaining system reliability and cost efficiency.
• Experience building APIs, services, and working with transactional DBs in high load, low latency environments.
• Proactive and product-ownership mindset, capable of delivering 0-to-1 products to facilitate rapid experimentation
• Good English communications with prior work experience in regional & global environment

Desirable Experience (Nice to Haves)

• Experience building software using AI / ML Engaging with AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance productivity, improve workflows, and contribute new ideas.
• Experience with data processing technologies such as Apache Flink (for real time processing) and Apache Spark (for batch processing)
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
• Experience building customer data platforms, clickstream platforms, or marketing / ads systems