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Lead Data Infrastructure Engineer

Singapore, sgStaffGrab relocates hires ↗Data Platformposted 11 d ago

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Skills, with evidence

  • Airflow / orchestration
    Workflow orchestration at production scale (Airflow, Dagster, Argo Workflows or similar).must have
  • Data quality
    Demonstrated ownership of data quality: validation frameworks, data contracts, tests, and alerting on the data itself — not only on job success.must have
  • Python
    Strong Python and SQL, with the ability to write production-grade data services rather than one-off scripts.must have
  • SQL
    Strong Python and SQL, with the ability to write production-grade data services rather than one-off scripts.must have
  • Spark
    Hands-on experience building and operating both batch and streaming pipelines (Spark, Flink, Kafka or equivalents).must have
  • Warehousing
    Data warehouse and lakehouse experience: open table formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi), partitioning strategy, and query engines (Presto/Trino, Spark SQL, BigQuery or equivalent).must have
  • AWS
    Cloud engineering on Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) and/or AWS, including object storage at scale, with Terraform as the primary IaC tool.must have · not practised here
  • Kubernetes
    Docker and Kubernetes for building and running data workloads.must have · not practised here
  • Terraform
    Cloud engineering on Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) and/or AWS, including object storage at scale, with Terraform as the primary IaC tool.must have · not practised here
  • Cost & performance
    Build observability for the pipelines themselves: throughput, lag, cost, failure modes and clear on-call signals.
  • Failure handling
    You will own the pipelines that move it, the validation and monitoring that prove it is trustworthy, the dashboards that engineering, operations and data science work from, and the integration of our robotics data and ML workloads onto Grab's existing data and ML platforms, so the team inherits Grab-scale tooling instead of rebuilding it.
  • Dashboards & BI
    You will own the pipelines that move it, the validation and monitoring that prove it is trustworthy, the dashboards that engineering, operations and data science work from, and the integration of our robotics data and ML workloads onto Grab's existing data and ML platforms, so the team inherits Grab-scale tooling instead of rebuilding it.not practised here
  • Streaming
    Design, build and operate batch and streaming pipelines for robot telemetry, sensor recordings, autonomy events and operational data.
  • Schema evolution & contracts
    Demonstrated ownership of data quality: validation frameworks, data contracts, tests, and alerting on the data itself — not only on job success.

Your plan

  1. ≈ 2 h
  2. ≈ 4 h
  3. ≈ 4 h
  4. Pipeline design: safe to run twice

    Airflow / orchestration · Failure handling · Streaming · Schema evolution & contracts

    ≈ 4 h
  5. ≈ 2 h
  6. ≈ 1 h
25 drills · Advanced + Intermediate≈ 16 hours

Not covered by the plan: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Dashboards & BI.

Readiness

Counted from drills you have completed anywhere on D8LooP.

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