Data Engineering Intern

Kickstart your career and gain meaningful, hands‑on experience as part of SEI’s paid summer internship program! Strategic Education Inc. (SEI) is a mission‑driven education organization dedicated to enabling economic mobility for working adult learners through innovative, career‑relevant learning pathways. SEI creates flexible, workforce‑aligned learning experiences across a global portfolio of institutions and platforms, including Strayer University, Capella University, Sophia Learning, Workforce Edge, and more.
As an intern within our Information Technology (IT) department, you’ll work full‑time alongside experienced engineers and project teams, contributing to real initiatives that support SEI’s mission and business goals. You’ll join a collaborative scrum team involved in designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting mission‑critical applications. This internship offers the opportunity to learn modern technologies, strengthen your technical skills, and experience a supportive, fast‑paced engineering environment built on teamwork, curiosity, and hands‑on learning.
Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll support a variety of technical tasks within the IT organization. Your responsibilities may include:

• Preparing technical requirements and documentation
• Writing, testing, and documenting code
• Troubleshooting and debugging technical issues
• Assisting with QA and application support
• Helping develop technical and user support documentation

Depending On The Work Assigned To You

• You may be writing Python and SQL to explore, ingest, transform, and extract data
• You could be participating in DevOps workflows using tools such as Terraform and GitLab
• You might be working with databases—including tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, indexes, and relational/dimensional models

Qualifications
Education

• Junior or senior pursuing a bachelor’s degree, or a graduate student in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field

Experience & Skills

• Strong team‑oriented mindset
• Creative and proactive problem‑solving skills
• Self‑starter who asks questions and seeks clarity
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Experience connecting to data sources, including external APIs
• Basic understanding of cloud concepts (Azure, AWS, or GCP preferred)
• Familiarity with development methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, DevSecOps, and version control

SEI offers a comprehensive package of benefits to employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week. In addition to medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, SEI employees may take advantage of well-being incentives, parental leave, paid time off, certain paid holidays, tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA), 401(k) retirement benefit, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance as well as entertainment and retail discounts. Non-exempt employees are eligible for overtime pay, if applicable.
Careers - Our Benefits, Strategic Education, Inc
SEI is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture where individuals can grow their careers and contribute fully. We strive to attract talent with broad experiences, skills and perspectives. We welcome applications from all. While it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the pay range at SEI, we offer a competitive salary. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal pay equity. Our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to discuss your interest in joining SEI. The expected salary range for this position is below.
$19.50 - $29.75 - Hourly
*If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete our application process, please contact our Human Resources Department at Careers@strategiced.com.*