Data Platform Engineer Ii (Data Science Infrastructure)- Fall 2023 Internship (Meraki)

Data Platform Engineer II (Data Science Infrastructure)
Fall 2023 (September 2023 - December 2023), full-time work schedule, Monday- Friday 40 hours per week.
Cisco Meraki is revolutionizing the way IT administrators manage their infrastructure by providing simple and secure cloud-managed solutions. With a large install base of customers and rich multifaceted data sets, the potential for data analytics to improve business performance for both our customers and our own business is enormous.
About The Role
The Data Science Infrastructure team is a growing group that works closely with executives and leaders across the company to support the development and alignment on our business strategy. We are looking for an Intern - Data Platform Engineer to develop cross-functional relationships and work closely with data engineering and data science teams to drive near and long term initiatives to improve our product and customer experience. This would be an outstanding fit for a solution-oriented technical pro who is hands-on, has the ability to work autonomously, and can drive technical efforts building robust and resilient auto-scaling platform solutions. In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We collect nearly 6 million data points each second (~50B events per day). In this role, you will design, implement, and help maintain the ETL pipeline that powers our systems. You will also help scale our systems to handle ever increasing amounts of data points and requests.
Example Projects of a Data Platform Engineering Intern

• Collaborate with several teams (product and non product) within Meraki to understand their data platform requirements and requests.
• Improve and restructure the backend architecture to scale to ever-larger customers.
• Design systems to ensure fast, reliable, and scalable delivery of data across our cloud based infrastructure.
• Solve challenging scaling problems to ensure a seamless user experience and high uptime.

What Skills You Possess

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• 2+ years of experience writing professional production level code and tests.
• Experience working with and building a batch or real-time streaming and compute infrastructure (Kafka, RabbitMQ/ SQS, Spark, etc)
• Experience in containerization technologies (docker) and orchestration platform (K8s).
• 2+ years of experience in Python and Scala / Java programming, and scripting languages.
• Currently enrolled in MS in Computer Science / related technical field or equivalent combination of work experience.
• Bonus points for experience in using AWS services such as EMR, Lambda, DynamoDB, Glue, Step Functions, etc.

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great engineers come from diverse backgrounds.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.