About the Role
Seeking a Principal Engineer to lead innovation in AI-powered data experiences and platform infrastructure, with responsibility for developing natural language query capabilities, enhancing data quality tools, and evolving analytical engines like StarRocks, while serving as a key technical leader across AI and data domains.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creation of AI-based systems that allow users to pose business questions in everyday language and get meaningful data responses.
- Design and implement scalable frameworks and tools to maintain high standards of data integrity and dependability.
- Serve as an active technical leader addressing complex problems in AI query processing, data validation, and analytics platforms.
- Partner with technical program managers and stakeholders to establish and guide the technical strategy for AI-driven querying and data infrastructure.
- Guide software engineers to improve data governance, query engine performance, and overall data platform reliability.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is available
Work Arrangement
Remote (City/Region) — Bangkok
Team
The Back End Engineering team develops robust, scalable systems and APIs that support core business functions such as inventory management, pricing, customer data, booking workflows, payments, and partner integrations. Systems are updated frequently with multiple daily deployments, requiring advanced CI/CD and testing practices to ensure zero downtime. The architecture is designed to be self-healing under heavy loads. Technologies include Scala, Go, Kafka, and Aerospike. The team values global talent and empowers engineers to lead transformative projects, from new product development to modernizing existing platforms.
About Agoda
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.
Get to Know our Team
In Agoda’s Back End Engineering department, we build the scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. Our systems cover all major areas of our business: inventory and pricing, product information, customer data, communications, partner data, booking systems, payments, and more. These mission-critical systems change frequently with dozens of releases per day, so we must employ state-of-the-art CI/CD and testing techniques in order to make sure everything works without any downtime. We also ensure that our systems are self-healing, responding gracefully to extreme loads or unexpected input. In order to accomplish this, we use state-of-the-art languages like Scala and Go, data technologies like Kafka and Aerospike, and agile development practices. Most importantly though, we hire great people from all around the world and empower them to be successful. Whether it’s building new projects like Flights and Packages or reimagining our existing business, you’ll make a big impact as part of the Back End Engineering team.
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