Description
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, and today we are part of Booking Holdings, with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries.
In Agoda's Back End Engineering department, we build scalable, fault-tolerant systems and APIs that host our core business logic. We are seeking a Principal Engineer to drive innovation across our AI-powered data experience and platform infrastructure.
As a senior technical leader, you will operate across AI, data infrastructure, and reliability domains, driving high-impact initiatives and serving as a key technical authority across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of AI-powered data querying solutions, enabling users to ask business questions in natural language and receive actionable insights.
- Architect and develop scalable data quality tools and frameworks to ensure reliable and trustworthy data.
- Act as a hands-on technical leader, tackling complex challenges across AI query engines, data quality systems, and analytical engines.
- Collaborate with TPMs and stakeholders to define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for AI-driven querying, query engines, and data quality tools.
- Mentor engineers and raise standards across data quality & governance tools, query engines, and the broader data platform.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL and large-scale data systems, modern analytical databases/data warehouses, and backend development.
- Experience building or working with AI/LLM-based applications, data platforms or analytical infrastructure at scale.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, query execution, and performance optimization.
- Proven ability to lead cross-team, high-impact technical initiatives.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits: No benefits mentioned in the job posting.