Staff Data Engineer

 

Sponsor

Agoda 

Title

Staff Data Engineer 

Description

About the team: The Data department at Agoda enables data-driven decision making across the company by building operational and analytical databases, queue systems, BI tools, and data science infrastructure. The Data Core Apps team operates large-scale systems spanning multiple data centers, handling millions of writes per second and tens of petabytes of data. We focus on real-time ingestion, replication, enrichment, storage and analytics — pushing big-data technologies to the edge.

Employment type

Full-time

Location

Level 22, 8 Chifley Square, Sydney NSW, 2000 

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop software services and platform components (including APIs and backend services) supporting data and metadata workflows.
• Own end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large initiatives across teams, including design, implementation, testing, rollout, and operational readiness.
• Build and maintain data/metadata integrations and pipelines (e.g., ingestion, connector development, scheduling, monitoring and failure handling).
• Drive system design and architecture decisions, document trade-offs, and participate in cross-team design/architecture reviews.
• Ensure operational excellence: observability (logging/metrics/tracing), alerting, incident response support, root-cause analysis, and prevention actions.
• Improve reliability and scalability through performance tuning, capacity planning, and high-availability patterns.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing strategies, and release safety; perform high-quality code reviews.
• Mentor engineers and enable other team members through knowledge transfer, documentation, and pairing.

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• 7+ years of experience in software and data engineering.
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