ezCater
ezCater is the world’s largest online marketplace for business catering.
Data Engineer Intern
Data EngineerData EngineerInternshipRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2007H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
Massachusetts
Posted
14 days ago
Salary
$38 - $45 / hour
Bachelor DegreeExperience acceptedEnglishAirflowAWSCloudDockerKubernetesPythonSQL
Job Description
• Provide timely, well-documented responses to data questions from stakeholders across Engineering, Marketing, Business, Data Science, and Analytics, escalating when appropriate and keeping requesters informed.
• Take on well-scoped, small data modeling requests in our warehouse: update or add dbt models and tests, write clear model documentation, and open PRs with thoughtful descriptions and checks.
• Support the health of our data platform by pairing with the on-call engineer to monitor job runs and alerts, triage issues, and execute playbooks; escalate quickly when outside scope.
• Proactively monitor nightly and hourly pipelines (e.g., Airflow DAGs, dbt Cloud runs, AWS DMS replication tasks) and remediate common failures (retries, backfills, simple config fixes) under guidance.
• Help maintain data reliability by responding to Monte Carlo observability alerts, validating anomalies, and creating or refining data quality tests.
• Partner with engineers to simplify and automate routine remediation steps; contribute small improvements that make our pipelines more robust and observable.
• Document what you learn: improve runbooks, add troubleshooting steps to our internal knowledge base, and keep tickets updated with clear status and outcomes.
Job Requirements
- Proficiency in SQL and comfort working with large datasets; basic scripting in Python is a plus.
- Foundational understanding of data warehousing and ELT concepts; interest in data engineering best practices (version control, code review, testing).
- Familiarity with or eagerness to learn modern data stack tools such as Snowflake, dbt Cloud, Airflow, AWS DMS, Monte Carlo, and Hightouch; exposure to Kubernetes/Docker is a plus.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; you ask good questions, document your work, and follow through.
- Growth mindset: open to feedback, willing to debug unfamiliar systems, and comfortable working within a defined on-call shadow/assist rotation.
- Currently pursuing a degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Benefits
- Market competitive salary
- Stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot
- 12 paid holidays
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with ezCater match
- Health/dental/FSA
- Long-term disability insurance
- Mental health and family planning resources
- Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office