Senior/Staff Data Engineer – Bidding

Senior/Staff Data Engineer – Bidding OPEN TO CANDIDATES OF ANY NATIONALITY FULL RELOCATION SUPPORT PROVIDED Location: Bangkok, Thailand Employment Type: Permanent Working Model: Hybrid Relocation Support: Available About the Company Our client is a leading global travel technology company operating across multiple international markets. Data and technology are central to its business, supporting millions of customers and large-scale digital products worldwide. The engineering team works across data engineering, machine learning, business analytics, and backend development. It builds scalable platforms, pipelines, and tools that help data science and commercial teams launch experiments, improve decision-making, and deliver reliable production systems. The Role The Senior/Staff Data Engineer will provide technical leadership while designing and improving large-scale data and machine-learning systems. The position offers end-to-end ownership and close collaboration with experienced engineers, product owners, data scientists, and business stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership to improve the scalability, quality, accuracy, speed, and efficiency of existing data and machine-learning processes Design, build, test, and maintain data pipelines, platforms, libraries, and engineering tools Support data science and business teams in launching experiments into production Analyse complex datasets to support commercial and technical decision-making Develop tools that automate large-scale data management, analysis, and machine-learning activities Build reliable systems that allow experiments and new solutions to be deployed rapidly Maintain high standards of data quality, software design, testing, and engineering best practices Take end-to-end ownership of systems from initial design through production deployment and ongoing improvement Requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline At least 6 years of software engineering experience At least 4 years of experience in data engineering or machine-learning engineering Expert-level experience designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines and data systems Strong expertise in SQL and Python 3 Strong experience with a JVM-based programming language such as Java or Scala Hands-on experience with technologies such as Scala, Apache Spark, Hadoop, SQL, and cloud object storage Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, functional programming, object-oriented programming, and engineering best practices Experience ensuring data quality, reliability, and scalability Familiarity with general machine-learning concepts and common models, including regularisation and tree-based models Familiarity with statistical analysis concepts such as p-values and z-scores Strong analytical and problem-solving ability A data-driven engineering mindset Professional English communication skills Desirable Experience Strong understanding of the Hadoop ecosystem and big-data architecture Commercial Scala or Scala Spark development experience Experience working in an Agile engineering environment Experience with test-driven development methodologies Linux systems administration knowledge Experience supporting data science, machine-learning, experimentation, or performance-marketing platforms Benefits Hybrid working model Relocation support Work-from-home setup allowance Up to 30 days of remote working from overseas each year Employee accommodation discounts International and multicultural working environment Annual volunteer leave Professional learning and development subscriptions Employee wellbeing and assistance programme Enhanced parental leave Life, total permanent disability, and accident insurance