Senior Database Engineer

Life at Grab

At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.

Senior Database Reliability Engineers (DBRE) keep database systems that support all user-facing services and many other Grab production systems running smoothly 24/7/365. DBREs are a blend of database engineering and software developers. They apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature software development and automation (with Agentive AI capabilities). They specialize in databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Vector databases. In that capacity, DBREs are peers to SREs and bring database expertise to the SRE and Infrastructure teams and our engineering teams.

The Day-to-Day Activities

• You will implement best practices across supported datastores ( MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Vector database's).
• Improve the end-to-end platformization of the database lifecycle to support feature-ready agentic workflows.
• Transform database platform self-service capabilities into reusable APIs for cross-platform integration.
• Enhance database reliability and performance across Grab while partnering with application teams to ship solutions.
• Improve database observability through metric tracking, anomaly detection, and preventive automated actions.
• Collaborate across platform and application engineering teams to safely deploy production changes and reduce database-related incidents.
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams through schema migration reviews, query optimization, and performance tuning solutions.
• Automate database infrastructure and empower engineering teams by delivering self-service tools.
• Improve database client library, connection pooling, stability, scalability, capacity planning, and performance tuning for Grab's infrastructure.
• Develop database infrastructure that can scale to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.
• Build the best High Availability (HA) and Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) solutions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support database production issues across services.

The Must-Haves

• At least 6 years of experience running MySQL/PostgreSQL databases in large Environments
• Knowledge in infrastructure automation (Python Programming)
• Awareness of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with stable and secure systems management practices.
• Knowledge of data modelling and data structure design skills.
• Experience with AI and Agenting AI capabilities to enhance the automation and platform features.

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.