Principal Software Engineer, Backend (Trust Platform)

Get to know our Team:
The User Trust team acts as guardians of all our users on Grab. We leverage our petabyte-level datasets to find solutions to toughest problems that never solved anywhere else, and have been evolving our world-class platforms that power with billions of Machine Learning based predictions everyday.  You can find more about two of our key service Griffin and Counter Service here!

Get to know the Role:
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 improve the life of more than half billion people. As a backend engineer, you would have a chance to build multi-million QPS services from scratch and dive deeply into core system performance challenges. You would also have chance to work with our top-notch data analytical and science team to build large-scale distributed machine learning systems end-to-end.

The day-to-day activities:

• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab services
• Designing, enhancing and building out new features and services
• Work with engineering team to create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Work with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Work with infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Work with Data Scientists to analyze and monitor large-scale data

The must haves:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
• Able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability