Internship 2023 - Machine Learning Intern - Data Team

The Programme

Cooperative internship period: January – May 2023 and August – December 2023.

The Opportunity: 

Within our Data Team, we build and maintain the engines behind the Machine learning driven optimizations we serve at real time to our customers.

It’s a combination of Real-time Microservices that are called every time users land on the website, machine learning models, Spark jobs running on the Hadoop clusters, and a back-office UI component exposed to our internal business users.

The systems are spread across 5 data centers and more than a thousand machines overall. Our biggest challenges are to support the ever-growing features and business requirements while keeping up with the SLA and scale of the systems. 

In this Role, you’ll get to: 

• You’ll work with experienced engineers and product owners to identify business opportunities, design and create new data systems from scratch, all the way to deploying software.
• Improve scalability, stability, speed of existing applications.
• Debug and fix production problems.
• Collaborate with other teams.
• Research new technologies and share across organizations.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Passion for Data and problems in large scale.
• Basic knowledge of at least one of the following languages: Scala, Java, Python, or any functional/OO languages. We code primarily in Scala.
• “Can do” attitude.
• Willingness to learn a new thing every day. 

It’s Great If You Have:

• Any prior Experience.
• Experience working with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop).
• SQL knowledge. 

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 more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 6,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities 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.