Data Engineer Intern

Tencent International Service Europe B.V.

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Netherlands-Amsterdam Until 8/22/2026 First posted June 23, 2026 Last posted June 23, 2026
Job description

Business Unit

Tencent Games was established in 2003. We are a leading global platform for game development, operations and publishing, and the largest online game community in China.
Tencent Games has developed and operated over 140 games. We provide cross-platform interactive entertainment experience for more than 800 million users in over 200 countries and regions around the world. Honor of Kings, PUBG MOBILE, and League of Legends, are some of our most popular titles around the world.
Meanwhile, we actively promote the development of esports industry, work with global partners to build an open, collaborative and symbiotic industrial ecology, and create high-quality digital life experiences for players.

What the Role Entails

1. Responsible for the raw data pipeline for all Tencent overseas games, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

2. Collaborate closely with upstream engineering teams to optimize data ingestion, processing, and storage.

3. Partner effectively with downstream stakeholders, including data analysts, data scientists, and ML engineers, to enable data-driven decision-making and advanced analytics.

4. Drive improvements in data pipeline performance, quality, and maintainability by implementing best practices and innovative solutions.

Who We Look For

1. Technical experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed data processing platforms.

2. Experience working with batch or streaming distributed data processing technologies. e.g. Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Presto, etc. for building efficient & large-scale data pipelines.

3. Data modeling experience designing data warehouse table schemas and logging schemas.

4. Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language (Java, Scala, Python, Go or equivalent).

5. Experience with large, complex, highly dimensional data sets; hands-on experience with SQL.

6. Experience working with cross-functional teams to collect business requirements, build consensus, and manage expectations.

7. You are self-directed and capable of operating amidst ambiguity.

8. You are humble, continually growing in self-awareness, and possessing a growth mindset.

9. You are curious and have excellent written and verbal communication as well as problem-solving skills.

10. Bilingual proficiency in English and Mandarin to engage with stakeholders from HQ and international teams is a plus.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

About this role

Summary

Assist in building and maintaining scalable data pipelines for Tencent's overseas games.

Job title

Data Engineer Intern

Experience level

entry level

Industry

gaming

Location requirements

Netherlands, Amsterdam; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

distributed data processingHadoopSparkSQLPython

Preferred skills

FlinkKafkadata modelingEnglishMandarin

Specializations

distributed data processingdata pipelinesSQLprogrammingdata modeling
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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