Engineering Manager, Developer Platform & DevOps (Bangkok based, relocation provided)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026. Agoda scores B on the Alion truth index.
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.
Get to Know our Team:
We’re a team of engineers focused on making it easier for Agoda’s developers to build, deploy, and operate software at scale. We own core developer platforms and tools from source control and CI/CD to service discovery and deployment and continually improve their reliability, security, and ease of use. Our work spans software engineering, DevOps, and people leadership, with the opportunity to shape technical direction and support a wide engineering community. Together, we tackle complex challenges, strengthen engineering practices, and help teams across Agoda deliver with confidence.
The Opportunity:
The DevOps Engineering Manager role at Agoda is one of the most significant and challenging roles at the company. The right candidate is both extremely hands on - technically excellent, with solid engineering principles and exhibits strong leadership and people development skills.
DevOps Engineering team is tasked with creating automation into the Software Development Lifecycle concerning all Agoda’s R&D. The team is responsible for maintaining all central Dev-related tooling chain and develop internal tools/Web Portals in order to increase development efficiency and security. The impact of this engineering team affects all development in Agoda.
In this role, you’ll get to:
- Lead hands-on software development across design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Build developer platforms and internal tools that improve engineering productivity.
- Scale CI/CD and security automation across approximately 1 million pipelines per month.
- Own core developer systems, including source control, CI, service discovery, and deployment platforms.
- Bridge software development and operations to improve reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Set technical direction and drive engineering best practices.
- Coach and grow engineers while building a high-performing team.
What you’ll need to succeed:
- Lead an engineering team with at least 5 direct reports.
- Demonstrate strong software development experience across the full SDLC.
- Code confidently in a modern language, preferably Go or Python.
- Build software systems, internal platforms, or developer tools.
- Apply CI/CD, DevOps, containerisation, and cloud-native practices.
- Use technologies such as Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Make autonomous, data-driven decisions and take ownership of outcomes.
- Manage Agile or Scrum teams effectively.
It’s great if you have:
- Built developer platforms or engineering productivity tools.
- Developed full-stack applications using React.js and Go.
- Worked with Kubernetes, Ansible, Consul, or Vault.
- Used SQL and NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL or Elasticsearch.
- Improved observability, platform reliability, security automation, or developer experience.
- Why this role is different:
- Combine software engineering, DevOps, and people leadership.
- Build tools and platforms used by engineers across Agoda.
- Solve complex engineering challenges at a significant scale.
Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview - click here to learn how interviewing at Agoda works.
Discover more about working at Agoda
- Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com
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- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda
- YouTube https://www.youtube.com/agodalife
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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Disclaimer
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