Site Reliability Engineer

Get to know our Team:

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing platform. We solve critical transportation challenges and make transport freedom a reality for 620 million people in Southeast Asia. Grab began as a taxi-hailing app in 2012, but has extended its product platform to include private car services (GrabCar), motorcycle taxis (GrabBike), social carpooling (GrabHitch) and last mile delivery (GrabExpress). Grab is passionate about pioneering new commuting alternatives and for drivers and passengers with an emphasis on speed, safety and reliability. The Company currently offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.Our production scale is massive. We process millions of bookings a day and billions of traffic data points per month. When you push out new code, tons of people will see your changes within seconds. Operating on this level is hard but deeply rewarding.As a leader in an exciting and dynamic industry that is evolving daily, we are seeking talented Engineers to join our team! You will specialize in maintaining elegant products on world-class technologies that bring our unique On-Demand Transport experience to millions of people, anytime and anywhere.

Get to know the Role:

• Work with engineering teams to design and write code to create systems which are highly available and able to scale seamlessly.
• Plan for and eliminate any potential threats to stability, availability or security.
• Improve monitoring, alerting and resilience of systems.
• Write tools to assist work such as capacity planning or improving the ability to debug production issues over distributed systems.
• Contribute to a culture of learning and responsibility by writing detailed postmortem reports.
• Tackle live issues on production when on-call with assistance from the rest of the teams.

The day-to-day activities:

Grab is looking for experienced site reliability engineers to help us operate, troubleshoot, and improve our real time on-demand transport service. Our platform is written mainly in Go and hosted on the AWS cloud. We are heavy users of MySQL, Redis and Kinesis.

The must haves:

• Experience in designing and writing software for production systems.
• Knowledge of Unix fundamentals.
• Experience crafting, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
• Good written and spoken English.