Data Platform Engineer Intern

At Car Gurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we're the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we've been profitable for over 15 years.

The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit  each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love Car Gurus - our employees do, too.

We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!

Car Gurus is looking for a highly motivated Data Platform Engineer Intern for the Data Engineering team to support evolving our modern data warehousing platform to world-class levels! As Car Gurus enters the next phase of dramatic growth with new data sources, new business lines, and business acquisitions, we are looking for a candidate who is interested in learning and being part of revamping how we do data at the company.

As a Data Platform Engineer Intern, you will join an 11-week Summer Internship Program designed to give you hands-on experience, expand your professional network, and build core industry skills. This full-time opportunity (40 hours per week) runs from June through August 2027. Car Gurus operates on a hybrid working model, and candidates should expect to work out of our Boston, MA office 60% of the time (approximately three days per week).

• Gain a deep understanding of our evolving data and analytics stack
• Understand and follow the decisions around the Data Engineering domain while providing input into strategic decisions around the overall data pipeline process
• Help build robust and scalable data integration (ETL/ELT) pipelines using Fivetran, Python, SQL and Airflow
• Write clean data pipeline code that is easily testable, understood by other developers, and handles errors
• Partner with stakeholders / leads to develop testing
• Collaborate with upstream data producers and downstream data consumers, and maintain a healthy work environment
• Deploy and manage our data infrastructure using Terraform

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field, with eligibility to complete a full-time internship.
• Exposure to data engineering and interest in designing and building scalable and reliable data pipelines and infrastructure
• Proficiency with Python programming skills and knowledge of SQL
• Experience working in a cross-functional team environment
• Good understanding of overall data pipeline system architecture and data modeling
• Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Working knowledge of workflow management tools like Airflow, Luigi etc
• Understanding of requirement gathering, analysis, code review, unit and integration testing
• Great teammate, interested in sharing knowledge with other team members, and is curious about learning new technologies

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Position Pay Range

$30-$30 USD

We reward our Gurus' curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups…