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.

**Get to Know the Team**:
The DBOps team in Grab is responsible for all online production databases. We identify database problems, provide solutions and also build automation platforms to automate repeatable operation work in the most efficient and optimized way. Our team is passionate about the details and works very closely with a wide range of stakeholders. Our passion is anchored in the work that we do, and this is reflected in the impact we make in SEA on a daily life basis.

**Get to Know the Role**:
We are looking for talented and passionate Database Engineers to join our team. You will have opportunities to work on different database technologies on a large scale. It's very important that our team members take initiative to identify problems, and have the right mindset and problem-solving skills.

**The Day-to-Day Activities**:

- Manage, maintain and monitor a multitude of NoSQL database clusters, and ensure obligations to SLAs
- Diagnose, mitigate and communicate database-related issues to relevant stakeholders both independently and collaboratively and take actions to prevent a recurrence
- Advise on and implement the best practices for business in each phase of the database cluster lifecycle: Planning, Provisioning, Tuning, Upgrading, Decommissioning
- Advise and support product, engineering, and operation teams.
- Work with engineering and operations team to automate and innovate new approaches driving scalability, reliability, and performance
- R&D on new features and innovative solutions to push boundaries as domain expertise for elasticsearch
- Participate in on-call rotations

**The Must-Haves**:

- Preferably a degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or related fields
- Strong CS fundamentals (with competencies in algorithms and data structures)
- Domain experience in Elasticsearch and also the use of Kibana and X-Pack
- Experience in provisioning & managing NoSQL clusters
- Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language - Golang, Python, Bash
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Strong problem solving, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Strong planning and organising skills
- Team player, independent, highly motivated and self-manageable
- Responsible, dedicated, and participate in on-call rotations.

**Nice-to-Have**:

- Familiar with other products in the Elastic Stack, e.g. Logstash, Metricbeat, Filebeat
- Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments
- Some knowledge of TCP/IP stack, Load balancer, and Networking.
- Acquainted with NoSQL databases and/ or relational databases such as Postgres, or MySQL
- Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible)
- Action and detail-oriented. Highly motivated to drive projects to completion
- Experience working with Redis/Elasticsearch, solving technical problems with Redis/Elasticsearch, and understanding of the internal workings of Redis/Elasticsearch

**Our Commitment**:
We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.