Engineering Manager II, Data Platform
On-siteHo Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam
Job Summary
Lead a Vietnam-based engineering team responsible for the evolution and operation of Grab's stream processing platform, guiding roadmap, coaching engineers, and raising standards for Apache Flink. Own quarterly planning, prioritization, and delivery of the Flink platform roadmap while setting high engineering standards across system design, code quality, testing, and operational readiness. Drive operational excellence through on-call readiness, incident response, post-incident learning, and capacity planning. Partner with Kafka, data lake, metrics, governance, SRE, security, and product teams to make real-time pipelines reliable across Grab's broader data ecosystem. Represent the team with clear communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders, turning ambiguous platform needs into practical execution plans.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering, data engineering, or platform engineering experience
- 3+ years managing engineers or leading engineering teams
- Experience building, operating, or managing distributed systems, data platforms, stream processing platforms, or other high-scale backend infrastructure in production
- Hands-on technical depth in Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka, or comparable large-scale data processing technologies
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering, production operations, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and security practices for critical platforms
- Proven ability to set roadmap, make prioritization calls under ambiguity, lead execution, and deliver measurable outcomes through a team
- Experience coaching engineers, growing technical leaders, hiring strong talent, and building a collaborative team culture across seniority levels
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs and align multiple teams around platform direction
- You will work onsite at Grab Vietnam office in HCMC
Desired Qualifications
- Production experience with Apache Flink internals, high availability, checkpointing, state management, job upgrades, shadow testing, and safe deployment patterns
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI, Go, Java, Scala, or infrastructure-as-code workflows
- Experience building platform abstractions, SDKs, deployment tooling, control planes, self-service workflows, or managed NoOps services
- Experience with data lake or warehouse technologies such as Spark, Parquet, Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, Trino, or Presto
- Exposure to data governance, data quality, stream contracts, platform cost management, or multi-tenant data infrastructure
- Curiosity about AI-assisted engineering and how high-quality real-time data can power safer automation across the company
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