Infra Engineer Manager, Service Mesh
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Job Location:
Petaling Jaya - Malaysia
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Get to know the team
The Service Mesh Engineering team is a dynamic and experienced group responsible for developing our service mesh infrastructure which forms the backbone of our microservice architecture. We help manage service-to-service connectivity securing traffic providing observability metrics and enhancing service through proper use of Hystrix timeouts and rate limiting. Our team collaborates using expertise in networking infrastructure microservices and more.
If you are passionate about driving innovation in designing and managing service mesh architecture and shaping service-to-service connectivity this opportunity is for you!
Get to know the role
Were looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Service Mesh team the group responsible for designing implementing and scaling our service mesh infrastructure (Istio) to power a observable and secure microservices ecosystem.
Youll guide a team of experienced engineers collaborate with platform teams and business service teams and shape the future of how our services communicate. If youre passionate about cloud-native networking zero-trust security and platform reliability this role is for you. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager and be based onsite at Petaling Jaya Malaysia.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Lead the Team: Mentor engineers foster a culture of ownership and hire top talent.
- Lead the Service Mesh Strategy: Increase adoption of Istio ensuring it meets performance security and scalability needs.
- Bridge Tech & Business: Work with service teams and platform teams to align service mesh capabilities with application requirements (e.g. traffic management mTLS observability).
- Optimize Performance: Solve challenges like latency spikes sidecar overhead and cross-group routing.
- Incident Leadership: Escalate issues for service mesh outages and complex debugging sessions.
Qualifications :
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- 5 years in infrastructure/platform engineering with 2 years managing teams.
- Expertise in service mesh technologies (Istio Consul or Envoy).
- Hands-on experience with AWS Kubernetes API gateways and cloud networking.
- Grasp of security fundamentals (mTLS RBAC zero-trust).
- Debug distributed systems.
Additional Information :
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 lifes challenges.
- Balancing personal commitments and lifes 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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Debugging
- Computer Networking
- ConnectWise
- PKI
- PowerShell
- Windows
- C#
- Automotive Diagnostics
- Medical Imaging
- Azure
- Technical Support
- Troubleshooting
About Company
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