Company Description
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.
Job Description
Senior Database Reliability Engineers (DBRE) keep database systems that support all user-facing services and many other Grab production systems running smoothly 24/7/365. DBREs are a blend of database engineering and software developers. They apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature software development and automation (with Agentive AI capabilities). They specialize in databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Vector databases. In that capacity, DBREs are peers to SREs and bring database expertise to the SRE and Infrastructure teams and our engineering teams.
The Day-to-Day Activities
You will implement best practices across supported datastores ( MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Vector database's).




Improve the end-to-end platformization of the database lifecycle to support feature-ready agentic workflows.
Transform database platform self-service capabilities into reusable APIs for cross-platform integration.
Enhance database reliability and performance across Grab while partnering with application teams to ship solutions.
Improve database observability through metric tracking, anomaly detection, and preventive automated actions.
Collaborate across platform and application engineering teams to safely deploy production changes and reduce database-related incidents.
Provide database expertise to engineering teams through schema migration reviews, query optimization, and performance tuning solutions.
Automate database infrastructure and empower engineering teams by delivering self-service tools.
Improve database client library, connection pooling, stability, scalability, capacity planning, a

📌 Senior Database Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Grab
📍 Bengaluru