Data Engineer Intern (Remote)

ezCater, Inc•Boston, MA

3h•$38 - $45•Remote

About The Position

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers. We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille. What You'll Do: 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. What You Have: 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. The national hourly compensation range for this position is $38/hour - $45/hour. Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance). Please have fun with the Cover Letter portion of the application! It does not need to follow “traditional” cover letter guidelines - we would love for you to write 150-500 words explaining why you are interested in ezCater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know! ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence. What You’ll Get from Us: You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony. Oh, and you’ll get all this: 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, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space. ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check. For information on how ezCater collects and uses job applicants' personal information, please visit our Job Applicant Privacy Policy. #BI-Remote

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).
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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.

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
a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
wicked awesome co-workers
Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office
knowing that you helped transform the food for work space