Lead Platform Engineer Flink

Role summary

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Grab is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer specializing in Apache Flink to design, build, and operate reliable real-time data platforms. The role typically requires strong experience with Flink, Java or Scala, distributed systems, streaming architectures, Kafka, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes. Candidates should understand data processing, scalability, observability, performance tuning, and production reliability. Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, communicating with cross-functional teams, and solving complex platform problems is expected. The successful candidate will help establish engineering standards, improve developer experience, and support Grab’s high-volume data and analytics ecosystem.

About the employer

Grab is a Southeast Asian technology company headquartered in Singapore, operating across mobility, food delivery, financial services, digital payments, and other everyday services. Its platform connects consumers, driver-partners, merchant-partners, and businesses across countries including Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Indonesia is one of Grab’s largest and most important markets, with extensive operations in ride-hailing, deliveries, payments, and financial products. The company employs engineers, data specialists, product teams, commercial professionals, and operations staff to build scalable services for a large regional user base. Grab promotes an engineering culture focused on customer impact, experimentation, collaboration, reliability, and solving complex problems at significant scale.

Working in Indonesia

Indonesia offers strong opportunities in technology, fintech, e-commerce, logistics, tourism, and digital services, especially in Jakarta on Java. Bali attracts professionals seeking a more relaxed lifestyle and has growing technology, hospitality, and creative communities, while Batam, Surabaya, Bandung, and other cities offer opportunities in manufacturing, engineering, education, and services. Indonesian culture generally values hospitality, community, respect for hierarchy, and religious diversity. Living costs vary considerably: Jakarta is expensive by local standards, while many areas of Java and Bali can be more affordable. Traffic, tropical weather, and occasional natural disasters require preparation. Foreign employees normally need employer-sponsored work authorization, commonly involving an employment visa and limited-stay permit; working on a tourist visa is not permitted. Relocation planning should cover housing, healthcare, taxation, banking, insurance, and local registration.