Senior/Staff Data Engineer (Rust), Singapore Based

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.