Data Engineer Intern – 8 month contract

Ratehub.ca

Data Engineer Intern at Ratehub assisting in data migration and building data pipelines. Collaborating with senior engineers and learning modern data stack in a remote-first environment.

Posted 5/14/2026internshipRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaEntry Level💰 CA$50,000 - CA$60,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformMongoDBNoSQLPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Assist the engineering team in the migration of data assets from Amazon Redshift to Snowflake, ensuring data integrity and performance.
Work closely with lead engineers to provision and configure the Insurance BU data infrastructure.
Build and maintain data pipelines using Airflow and dbt.
Help create clean, modular, and maintainable code by refactoring complex queries into streamlined transformation layers.
Partner with both engineering and business teams to understand requirements and deliver data solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Currently enrolled in a post-secondary co-op program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field.
Strong foundational knowledge of SQL and Python.
Academic or project experience with dbt, Airflow, or Snowflake is highly preferred.
Exposure to cloud environments (AWS or GCP) and an understanding of data warehousing concepts.
Familiarity with DevOps practices or NoSQL databases (Mongo DB) is considered a definite asset.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Accommodations available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythondbtAirflowSnowflakedata warehousingNoSQLMongoDBDevOpsdata migration

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilitycritical thinkingorganizational skillsteamworkanalytical skillstime management