Field Engineering Co Op - acceldata

ABOUT US

Acceldata is the market leader in Enterprise Data Observability. Founded in 2018, Silicon Valley-based Acceldata has developed the world's first Enterprise Data Observability Platform to help build and operate great data products.

Enterprise Data Observability is at the intersection of today’s hottest and most crucial technologies such as AI, LLMs, Analytics, and DataOps. Acceldata provides mission-critical capabilities that deliver highly trusted and reliable data to power enterprise data products.

Delivered as a SaaS product, Acceldata's solutions have been embraced by global customers, such as HPE, HSBC, Visa, Freddie Mac, Manulife, Workday, Oracle, PubMatic, PhonePe (Walmart), Hersheys, Dun & Bradstreet, and many more. Acceldata is a Series-C funded company whose investors include Insight Partners, March Capital, Lightspeed, Sorenson Ventures, Industry Ventures, and Emergent Ventures.

Summary

As a Field Engineer Co-op at Acceldata, you’ll be working hands-on with complex distributed systems, helping real customers solve deep infrastructure and data observability challenges.

You’ll get to:

• Shadow and contribute to field-engineering solutions and architecture reviews.
• Dive into diagnostics around performance, scalability, and deployment for large-scale data environments.
• Learn how we enable observability across Data, Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and Open Source components like spark, hive, kafka etc.
• Collaborate directly with the Field Architects to troubleshoot issues and propose improvements.
• Learn designing, developing and deploying reusable automation and AI frameworks to enable observability of various data ecosystems and platforms.
• Build context across Sales, Product, and Customer Success, understanding how real-world engineering meets customer expectations.
• See what it means to turn technical solutions into customer value at scale.

This role is built for future Sales Engineers, Solution Architects, or Platform Engineers who want early exposure to enterprise-scale engineering problems.

If you’re excited by debugging distributed systems, working close to customer impact, and seeing how world-class engineering drives business outcomes, this Co-Op is built for you.

This is a 4 month assignment, 40 hours per week, with required on-site presence at 151 Charles Street West, inside the Communitech Innovation Center.

WHY INTERN WITH US

• Gain valuable experience at a fast-growing tech startup in Canada.
• Work alongside senior field engineers and architects to solve complex platform reliability and data operations challenges.
• Gain hands-on experience with cloud native and distributed systems like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, and Kubernetes.
• Get mentorship from engineers and architects who’ve scaled infrastructure at leading t