Summer 2026 Data Engineering Intern

About Us

Live Oak Bank is a digital bank that serves small business owners across the country.  Our groundbreaking spin on service and technology has fueled our mission to be America’s Small Business Bank. Our products help customers buy, build, and expand their business, and our high-yield savings and CD products help them grow their hard-earned money.  At Live Oak, we never lose sight of the well-being of our people. We believe our employees are the heart of our company. Our commitment to our customers and culture is intertwined, and we seek those who embody and embrace what it takes to empower the American dream.

The Data Engineering team is seeking an intern for the onsite 10-week Summer 2026 Internship Program at Live Oak Bank in Wilmington, NC.

How This Role impacts Live Oak and its People 

The Data Engineer Intern will help drive strategic decisions at Live Oak Bank by working with the Data Platform team to provide clean, well-organized data that supports analytics, reporting, and machine learning processes. Daily activities will include helping to define and then produce structured and standardized data sets that drive customer engagement and bring Live Oak’s mission to “Treat Every Customer Like The Only Customer” to life through analytics and reporting that informs next best actions. 

What You’ll Do at Live Oak 

• Discover, integrate, and standardize data from a variety of data sources. 

• Build automated data pipelines with modern data stack tooling to enable business intelligence. 

• Integrate changes with CI/CD automation to ensure system stability with complete monitoring and alerting. 

• Enable high data quality within data pipelines through data completeness and validity tests. 

• Work across engineering and analytics teams to provide up to date, meaningful data that drives decision making.  

How You’ll Do It            

• Top Tier Intelligence: Ability to simplify complex situations; ability to make sound judgments; ability to research and analyze data to drive strategies and outcomes. 

• Creative Thinker: Values innovation and evaluates multiple alternatives to achieve goals. 

• Execution-oriented: Capable of delivering a concept to completion, measuring performance, evaluating, and reacting appropriately. 

• Partner focused: Engenders trust among peers and partners. Concerned for personal and professional development of others. Demonstrates real empathy with the success and failures of others. 

Required and Preferred Experience 

Required: 

• Currently enrolled in a full-time degree program such as Computer Science, Engineering, or other related field 

• Basic experience in scripting languages (e.g., Python), Data Querying languages (e.g., SQL) 

• Basic experience with CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g., GitLab, GitHub) 

• Strong partnership skills and the ability to work collaboratively across various groups in the organization 

• Knowledge of basic statistical analysis