Senior Software Engineering Manager, Security Engineering

About the role

Grab's Security Engineering team builds the tools, processes and guardrails that let engineers move quickly and securely, working with infrastructure, backend, frontend and mobile teams on secure delivery pipelines, threat detection and reusable security capabilities. This is an onsite role in Singapore reporting to the Head of Engineering, leading an organisation of about 15-20 engineers including engineering managers and senior individual contributors.

Key responsibilities

• Define and deliver a security engineering roadmap across infrastructure, backend, frontend and mobile systems.
• Embed automated security checks and secure defaults into development and CI/CD workflows, reducing reliance on manual decisions.
• Improve the tools and observability engineers use to detect, investigate and respond to security threats.
• Use generative AI and agentic development tools to help teams detect and fix security issues more efficiently, with appropriate safeguards.
• Lead and develop engineering managers and senior individual contributors, building a strong technical organisation.
• Modernise security practices in existing systems through reusable capabilities, clear standards and adoption across teams without slowing delivery.

Required profile

• At least 10 years of software or security engineering experience, including significant leadership in security engineering, platform engineering or developer infrastructure.
• Experience leading multiple engineering teams, including managers and senior individual contributors, in a large engineering organisation.
• Deep hands-on experience in backend platforms (Go, Kubernetes, microservices), AWS cloud infrastructure or security engineering (static and dynamic application security testing, penetration testing).
• Experience designing secure CI/CD workflows and automated security controls, and guiding technical design and standards adoption across teams.
• Experience engaging with AI tools and emerging technologies to improve productivity and workflows.

What we offer

• Term life insurance and comprehensive medical insurance.
• Parental and birthday leave, plus volunteering leave.
• A confidential assistance programme for employees and their loved ones.
• FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.