Lead Software Engineer, Flink

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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.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGet to Know the Team\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Streaming Data team (a.k.a. \u0022Coban\u0022) strives to ensure seamless and secure real-time access to the continuous events or \u0022streams\u0022, serving as Grab\u0027s unified, common access pattern for real-time data. We build the infrastructure and platform for writing, consuming real-time data, and provide a cost-effective, managed \u0022NoOps\u0022 service for all product teams to leverage. 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