Senior/Staff Data Engineer (Rust), Singapore Based

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose - Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodation, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting edge technology that connects travelers with more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 4,000+ talents coming from 90+ different nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enabling our customers to experience the world

Get to Know Our Team

At Agoda, our Data Store Team operates at massive scale—across multiple data centers, handling millions of writes per second and managing tens of petabytes of data. We tackle complex challenges in real-time data ingestion, replication, enrichment, storage, and analytics. Join us to build world-class tools and provide robust S3 object store and block storage solutions for our users.

The Opportunity

We are seeking talented engineers with diverse backgrounds and experience levels to join our Data Store Team. Whether you are an experienced specialist or early in your data engineering journey, we encourage you to apply. We value engineers who are curious, adaptable, and passionate about building scalable systems. If you are excited by the challenge of working with massive data platforms, enjoy solving complex problems, and want to make a real impact on how data is stored and accessed at scale, this is the opportunity for you. We welcome candidates from all walks of life and are committed to building an inclusive, innovative team.

In this Role, you will get to:

• Enhance the monitorability, scalability, stability, accuracy, speed, and efficiency of our data storage systems
• Design and develop authentication systems
• Build and maintain load balancers
• Automate operational processes to improve reliability and reduce manual effort
• Develop front-end and other utility tools to support internal users
• Work primarily with Rust, and occasionally with other languages such as Go, Python, and TypeScript
• Participate in an on-call rotation (approximately one week per month) to address emergency issues—though we prioritize minimizing such incidents
  
  

What You’ll need to Succeed

• Passion for coding and building robust systems
• Expert-level proficiency in Rust programming
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience debugging and resolving production issues
• Familiarity with Big Data technologies and tools
• Systems administration experience in Linux environments
  
  

It's great if you have

• Experience working with data infrastructure or data platform teams
• Background in open-source product development
• Experience with big data ecosystems
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
  
  

Rewards & Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonus
• Opportunity to work on large-scale, high-impact engineering challenges
• Collaborative, international team environment
• Professional growth and learning opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements and generous leave policies
  
  

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Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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Disclaimer

We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.