Data And Engineering Internships Fall 2026

Remote - Americas

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About the role

Read through our Internships FAQ to help answer any questions you may have about internships at Shopify. Being a Shopify Intern: Our hiring process is unique. We hire interns and place them on teams we think they’d be successful on. We place interns on teams based on their experience, interest, and what works best for Shopify. We hire interns exclusively into Data and Engineering internships. Data Internships: We’re looking for interns to work in the following areas:

Data Engineering to architect and manage the expansive data pipelines that fuel everything from product analytics to merchant-facing data products.
Product Data Science to deeply understand our products, tell their stories and figure out how to make them 10x better.

Engineering Internships: We are looking primarily for interns to fill a large number of internship roles in Software Engineering:

Software Engineering: to craft the code that powers commerce, creating the extendable products that scale the entire commerce stack.

Candidates with previous experience in the following areas may be considered for internships within these areas:

Applied Machine Learning Engineering: to use extensive data to build products and create and fine-tune ML models.
Infrastructure Engineering: to build and develop the blocks that move all of Shopify forward.
Security Engineering: to detect, evaluate, and address security threats to Shopify and its merchants.

Shopify is a big part of the Ruby and Rails communities, and we’re constantly improving our codebase to make it even better. You do not need prior Rails experience to apply to this internship! Working at Shopify:

You must be legally entitled to work in the location they are applying to for the entire duration of the Fall 2026 internship (September 8th to December 18th, 2026). *Shopify does not provide immigration support to intern candidates.*
This internship is a 4 month long, full-time, paid experience - interns are expected not to be enrolled in school full-time while working at Shopify.

As an Intern you must be able to work from one of our offices: Canada

Montréal, Québec (490 Rue De la Gauchetière O)
Ottawa, Ontario (151 O’Connor Street)
Toronto, Ontario (620 King West)

USA

Bellevue (1100 112th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004)
New York (85 10th Ave, New York City, New York 10011)

*Please note:* if you don’t currently live in one of the above cities, you must be willing and able to relocate for in-office experiences at one of these offices. If successful in your application, we will match you to a team when you start at Shopify. We’re unable to accommodate requests for particular teams and location changes once an offer is signed. Onboarding:

Interns must be located in their office city by the first day of onboarding (September 8, 2026) ready to work 9:00am - 5:00pm. Interns cannot work from outside of the country they are hired in during their internship.

Qualifications:

You love challenging yourself with projects or hacking just for fun
You are a constant learner
You have a passion for solving tough problems with code
You take ownership of the projects you work on
You enjoy research and figuring out how pieces of an entire project work
You take pride in creating simple solutions to complex problems
You have a strong commitment to quality

Additional Information In your application:

Include your resume
Answer all of the application questions

Once you submit your application, and if you move forward in our process, you’ll then be emailed a series of mandatory assessments to complete. These will help assess your technical skills and your likelihood of success at Shopify.

We know that applying for internships can be time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. The Early Talent Programs Team are actual real live people (👋🏻) and we’re looking forward to learning more about you through your application. Applications will close May 7th at 11:59pm (ET).