Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Why Agoda Engineering Team (ML role)

• Our engineering teams are at the intersection of business analytics, ml engineering, data warehousing and software engineering
• Our job involves dealing with distributed systems, stream processing, ml modeling and computation at tens of PB Scale
• We focus on software engineering related to data replication, storage, centralized computation, and Data APIs
• By providing our users with ML products/tools, shared frameworks, and ML services, we enable our company to validate strategic decisions, make smarter choices, and react to the fast-changing world
• We are a small but passionate team with people from different nationalities working together on a single goal

• Lead the team technically in improving scalability, stability, accuracy, speed and efficiency of our existing ML systems and processes.
• Build, administer and scale ML processing pipelines.
• Be comfortable navigating the following technology stack: Python3, Pyspark, scripting (Bash/Python), Hadoop, SQL, S3 etc
• Should be able to understand internals of ML models such as Random Forest, CNN, Regression models, etc
• Design, build, test and deploy new libraries, frameworks or full systems for our core systems while keeping to the highest standards of testing and code quality.
• Work with experienced engineers and product owners to identify and build tools to automate many large-scale data management / analysis tasks.
• We believe in end-to-end ownership; this role will involve taking ML models to production at a scale.

• Bachelors degree in computer science /information systems/engineering/related field
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a minimum of 4+ years in ML
• Good experience in Pyspark
• Expert level understanding of Python with design patterns and object-oriented programming.
• Experience debugging and reasoning about production issues is desirable.
• A good understanding of data architecture principles preferred.
• Any other experience with Big Data technologies / tools
• SQL experience
• Analytical problem-solving capabilities experience.
• Systems administration skills in Linux
• A strong engineering driven mindset will be required to succeed in this role.

• Good understanding of Hadoop ecosystems
• Experience working with Open-source products
• Experience with Scala development
• Working in an agile environment using test driven methodologies

• Hybrid Working Model
• WFH Set Up Allowance
• 30 Days of Remote Working from anywhere globally every year
• Employee discount for accommodation globally
• Global team of 90+ nationalities
• 40+ offices and 25+ countries
• Annual CSR / Volunteer Time off
• Benevity Subscription for employee donations
• Volunteering opportunities globally
• Free Headspace subscription
• Free Odilo Udemy subscriptions
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (third party for personal and workplace support)
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Life, TPD Accident Insurance