[Summer Internship 2025] Data Platform Engineer Intern

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.

Summer internship period: 26th May - 1st August 2025

The Opportunity:

Join us as an Intern in one of the Data Platform Teams which together manage the data infrastructure serving as the core backbone for all Agoda’s Data needs. The Data Platform spans four teams:

1. Data Pipeline: Maintaining large scale Data Pipelines spanning trillions of events a day across multiple Data Centers

2. Data Lake Operations: Administering our massive Hadoop Data Lakes at ~30+ PB scale for our data storage and computational needs

3. Data Applications: Creating self-service data tools/apps (e.g. ETL, Synchronization Tools, Discoverability Tools, Data Quality Tools etc.) for use by anyone in Agoda

4. Data Experience: Promoting Data Democratization and Usage through intuitive Web UIs that make it easy for any Agoda employee to interact with data

If you are interested in Data Engineering and Big Data, then this is the right internship program for you. You’ll have opportunity to work with large distributed system such as Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Object Storage, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes etc.

In this Role, you'll get to: 

• Start off by learning about our Systems, going through the onboarding courses (based off one of the 4 teams that you’ll join)
• Based on your interests, you’ll have an opportunity to choose which components you would like to work on.
• At which point, you’ll be assigned a mentor. Together, you’ll then decide on an internship project and go through the full development cycle within the course of your internship.
• You will take a project from ideation all the way to production. You would come up with an idea, develop a proof of concept, write tests, build dashboards, make your code production ready, deploy to production, debug issues, and learn how to automate everything.
• Come out at the end of the Internship shipping real code, understanding what it takes to deal with TB to PB worth of data, how to design good and scalable software, learning more about large distributed systems, and seeing your code run in Production

What you'll Need to Succeed:

• Be an Undergraduate / Graduate in an IT related / Computer Science or equivalent degree
• Proficient in at least one of these languages: Java, C#, Go, Python, JavaScript + React
• Good communication skills, Fast learner, Positive and Open Attitude

• Ability to work independently and as a team player

• Strong English speaking and writing skills

It's Great if you have:

• Knowledge and experiences in Big Data such as Hadoop, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Docker and Kubernetes

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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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