Data Engineer Internship, OpenTable
Pay is $42 CAD/hour
2-5 days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation service
Be an early applicant
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Pay is $42 CAD/hour
2-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring together people and the restaurants they love in the moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field. Expected to graduate by Spring 2027
- Strong programming skills: Solid computer science fundamentals with experience in Python and/or SQL
- Interest in data infrastructure: Excited to build and maintain data pipelines, models, and systems
- Database familiarity: Understanding of relational databases and data processing tools; experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus
- Understanding of data modeling and ETL concepts: Coursework or project experience a strong advantage
- Analytical mindset: You enjoy solving complex data problems and thinking critically about performance and trade-offs
- Curiosity and drive: Eager to learn new technologies like Spark, Airflow, or modern data warehouses
- Collaboration skills: You communicate clearly and work effectively with cross-functional partners
What the job involves
- The Data Engineering team at OpenTable supports a wide range of initiatives targeting diners, restaurants, and internal stakeholders. The team is expanding its capabilities to power a growing set of product features and AI-driven systems that rely on clean, scalable, and reliable data infrastructure
- *This is a 12-week internship program
- Collaborate globally with our Product and Data teams while working day-to-day alongside and learning from our Toronto-based data engineers in a supportive, hybrid environment
- Build and evolve scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT) that ensure reliable data flow across systems and teams
- Work on data modeling, transformation, and validation to maintain high-quality datasets that power analytics and machine learning
- Help optimize and modernize our data infrastructure, improving performance and reliability across platforms
- Partner with engineers, analysts, and data scientists to identify opportunities for automation and better data accessibility
- Grow through mentorship by receiving guidance and coaching from experienced data engineers, helping you sharpen your technical skills and accelerate your career
Our take
OpenTable was one of the earliest innovators in the online reservation space, setting up shop in 1998 as a tool to enable restaurants to take bookings online. Rather than charging consumers for the service, OpenTable generates revenue via a monthly subscription and reservation fee from businesses.
Today, the platform is used by tens of thousands of restaurants around the world and seats over 1 billion diners per year. The company was acquired by Booking Holdings – the world's largest travel company – for $2.6 billion in 2014, and remains a subsidiary of the group to this day.
OpenTable is the dominant player in the restaurant reservation software category, with an impressive 45% market share, but does face increasing competition from platforms like Resy, Tock, TableAgent, and many more. Nonetheless, this market leader has garnered an impressive reputation, and there is nothing to say it won't hold on to the dominance it has earned into the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2000
$36m
SERIES C
Jan 2000
$10m
SERIES B
Total funding: $48.2m
Company benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere - wherever you do your best work
- Mental health and well-being - company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth, company-paid subscription to HeadSpace, and company-wide weeks off a year so the whole team can recharge
- Generous parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Enriched learning and development opportunities - leadership development & access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Debby Soo
(CEO, not founder)After graduating from Stanford with a liberal arts major, Debby started their career in investment banking. Thereafter they worked in Google’s Strategic Partnerships Group and then spent a decade at KAYAK, eventually becoming CCO.
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