Staff Data Engineer – Display Marketing Team (Bangkok based, relocation provided)

About Agoda

Get to Know Our Team

• This role is part of Agoda’s Display & App Marketing engineering team, focused on building and improving large-scale systems that power paid marketing across global advertising channels, including Display Ads and App Install campaigns.
• Our systems handle high-volume hotel feeds (price, availability, content), image processing for advertisements, advertising platform integrations (Google Ads, Meta, etc.), and data pipelines that support experimentation and optimization.
• You will work closely with Marketing, Product, and Data teams to deliver reliable, efficient, and scalable engineering solutions, with strong exposure to marketing strategy, experimentation, and real business impact.
• The team is growing and evolving, giving you the opportunity to shape systems and ways of working end-to-end—from design and implementation to operational excellence at global scale.
• In this Role, you will get to
• Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that support performance marketing use cases, including hotel feeds, ad platform integrations, and experiment data
• Contribute to technical design discussions and drive implementation of production systems running at scale
• Take part in the full development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
• Proactively identify and improve system reliability, scalability, data quality, and operational efficiency
• 5 Write clear, maintainable code and actively participate in code reviews and technical discussions
• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and other Engineering teams to clarify requirements and deliver effective solutions
• Support and improve the team’s engineering standards, including CI/CD, monitoring, and documentation
• Make technical trade-offs across performance, quality, and cost
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and knowledge sharing, in line with your experience and interests

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)8+ years of experience, with a focus on backend and/or data engineering
• Strong proficiency in Scala (preferred) or another JVM language (e.g. Java, Kotlin)
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Experience building and operating data processing and pipeline systems, e.g. Spark, Kafka, workflow orchestration tools
• Experience with messaging and asynchronous systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Demonstrated track record of driving architectural decisions and improving team-level engineering metrics and system reliability
• Ability to lead incident response: identify root cause, drive resolution, and communicate clearly
• Experience working in Agile, cross-functional teams
• Strong English communication skills, written and verbal
• An engineering-driven mindset with strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking abilities
• Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, with a genuine interest in helping others grow
• It's great if you have
• Deep experience with Spark-based distributed data pipelines, including performance tuning and query plan optimization
• Experience integrating with external APIs or third-party platforms at scale (e.g. Google Ads, Meta), with familiarity in advertising, marketing, or experimentation systems
• Experience identifying, monitoring, and addressing data quality risks in production, supported by observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• A track record of cross-team technical influence — creating reusable patterns or frameworks, and shaping engineering standards beyond your immediate team
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