Datorth
Internship New York, NY / Remote

Data Platform Intern

Join our platform engineering crew to strengthen observability, automation, and quality across Datorth’s multi-cloud data stack. You’ll build tooling that makes streaming, warehousing, and governance safer and faster.

Hybrid New York, NY / Remote
Pairing Senior platform engineer
Stack Flink · Spark · Kubernetes · Terraform
Tooling

Automate reliability

Build scripts, dashboards, and alerts that keep data products observable from ingestion to activation.

Learning

Operate at scale

Gain hands-on experience with production-grade streaming and data governance systems.

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What you’ll do

Work alongside platform engineers to improve core services that power Datorth’s customer deployments.

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Infrastructure automation

Extend internal tooling that provisions streaming clusters, data contracts, and observability pipelines.

  • Create Terraform modules and reusable scripts
  • Improve CI/CD checks for data workflows
  • Document runbooks for platform teams
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Observability & insights

Design dashboards that track latency, data quality, and platform SLIs across hybrid environments.

  • Integrate metrics from Flink/Spark and Kafka
  • Automate anomaly alerts with threshold logic
  • Share findings in recurring platform reviews
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Quality experiments

Prototype tooling that validates schemas, data contracts, and governance policies automatically.

  • Build CLI or web utilities for engineers
  • Collaborate with data governance to codify rules
  • Measure improvements in deploy velocity

What we’re looking for

You’re energized by complex systems, clean automation, and shaping infrastructure that powers mission-critical data products.

Qualifications

Pursuing a degree in computer science, data engineering, or related field with experience in scripting and cloud services.

  • Python, Go, or TypeScript fundamentals
  • Exposure to container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Understanding of data pipelines or distributed systems

Nice to have

Any projects involving streaming frameworks, observability stacks, or infrastructure-as-code.

  • Experience with Kafka, Pulsar, or similar
  • Grafana/Prometheus or OpenTelemetry knowledge
  • Contributions to open-source tooling

Program highlights

Hybrid schedule with on-site collaboration days and immersive workshops on Datorth’s data platform.

  • Mentorship cohort with technical workshops
  • Intern cohort hackathon and demo day
  • Potential full-time return offers

How to stand out

Share repos or documentation demonstrating how you reason about reliability, automation, or developer experience.

  • Include GitHub links or tech blogs
  • Highlight teamwork on platform/infrastructure projects
  • Tell us what data problems you want to solve

Ready to build the Datorth platform?

Send us your resume, a quick intro, and links to any relevant projects. We can’t wait to meet you.

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