Software Developer - Infrastructure Platform (Bangkok-based, 10-month Contract)
Summary
A software developer on Agoda's Infrastructure Platform team in Bangkok maintains and enhances Agoda's self-built infrastructure management system, building tools and automation around OpenStack, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry. This is a 10-month, Bangkok-based contract focused on scaling, reliability, and automation of internal infrastructure.
About Agoda
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.
Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.
No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.
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.
Get to Know our Team:
The Infrastructure Platform Development team builds and maintains the foundational infrastructure layer that powers all Agoda’s services. Running on over 25,000 server instances and hundreds of Kubernetes clusters, we design and develop systems that enable seamless virtualization, multi-tenant compute platforms and software-defined networking and storage. From building custom Kubernetes operators and automating bare metal provisioning to integrating one of the largest OpenStack private clouds in Asia and managing large-scale monitoring with OpenTelemetry, we work with cutting-edge technologies to deliver scalable, reliable and automated solutions. This is a unique opportunity to shape a modern infrastructure platform that evolves to meet the demands of Agoda’s fast-paced, dynamic business landscape.
The Opportunity:
Our Infrastructure Platform Development team in Bangkok is seeking a Software Developer to help us in design, build, scale and maintain Agoda's internal infrastructure platforms. This is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in developing and enhancing our self-built infrastructure management system, as well as creating tools and scripts to interact with core components like OpenStack and Kubernetes.
This role is a 10-month contract based in Bangkok, Thailand
If you are passionate about infrastructure system management and eager to work with modern technologies in a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you!
In this Role, You'll Get To:
- Design, develop and implement your own ideas to contribute to Agoda’s infrastructure platform, with a main focus on maintaining and enhancing our self-built infrastructure management system.
- Work on interesting challenges unique to the modern platform infrastructure we maintain, including scaling, reliability and automation
- Interact with technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and other industry-leading tools to build and optimize our infrastructure.
What you’ll Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related fields.
Fresh graduates are welcome to apply!
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills (working language is English)
- Programming experience in a modern language (preferably Python or Go), academic or professional.
- Basic knowledge of Development ecosystems like Git and Docker
- High sense of ownership, self-driven mindset and willingness to learn
- Comfortable working in the Linux command line environment including Bash scripting
It’s great if you have:
- Experience in using modern CI/CD systems (GitLab or GitHub Actions) and creating CI/CD pipelines with configuration as code (e.g., YAML, Bash)
- Expertise in managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters or OpenStack environments.
- Advanced Docker knowledge, including creating Dockerfiles, building multi-stage builds and troubleshooting complex container-related issues.
- Experience with hardware management APIs such as Redfish, ILO, DRAC or similar
- Knowledge of physical architecture at scale, including building resilient, highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
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- This role does not include visa sponsorship and is only open to people with current work authorization in Thailand. Are you able to legally work in Thailand without visa sponsorship?
- In which country/region are you currently based?
- To avoid actual or perceived impairment of our parent company’s independent auditor – Deloitte and to comply with applicable regulations of Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, we need to seek approvals from our parent company before starting the interview process. With this, please confirm if you are currently or formerly have been associated with Deloitte or any of its subsidiary entities at any time including but not limited to any time as a direct employee, director, contractor, major shareholder, intern etc.?
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