Data Engineer Intern (Fall 2026)

Cloudflare•San Francisco, CA

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

This internship is targeting students with experience and interest in Data Engineering. The Data Engineer Intern delivers full-stack data solutions across the entire data processing pipeline. This role relies on systems engineering principles to design and implement solutions that span the data lifecycle - collect, ingest, process, store, persist, access, and deliver data at scale and at speed. It includes knowledge of local, distributed, and cloud-based technologies, data virtualization, and all security and authentication mechanisms required to protect the data.

Requirements

Currently enrolled in M.S in Computer Science, Engineering or related STEM field
Available for a full-time, 12-week internship, working from our Austin office 3-5 days a week during the fall (Sept-Dec)
Experience working with Go, Python, SQL, Java, or equivalent programming languages
Experience working with distributed systems (Spark etc.)
Hands-on experience in data pipelines/ frameworks development
Ability and interest to learn new skills and technologies quickly
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with container based deployments such as Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with JavaScript, Typescript, and React

Responsibilities

Work through all stages of a data solution lifecycle – analyze / profile data, create conceptual, logical and physical data model designs, architect and design ETL, reporting and analytics
Knowledge of modern enterprise data architectures, design patterns, and data tool sets and the ability to apply them
Identify key metrics and build exec-facing dashboards to track progress of the business and its highest priority initiatives
Identify key business levers, establish cause & effect, perform analysis, and communicate key findings to various stakeholders to facilitate data driven decision-making
Work closely across the business teams like Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Customer Support, Product, Engineering

Benefits

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul.
Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo
Athenian Project
1.1.1.1
We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver.
This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released.
Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever.
We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
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