Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer (Contract | 1099)
Braintrust
Seattle, WA
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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Database Report Tools, Looker, Network Connectivity, Performance Management, Python Programming/Scripting Language
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
13 days ago
Company Braintrust is a global talent network that connects top independent professionals with leading companies for high-quality, flexible work. We help organizations hire skilled talent faster while giving professionals access to vetted opportunities with innovative teams.
Job description
We are looking for a Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer to join our data team on a full-time 1099 contract through the end of the year. You'll work alongside a team of five data professionals, with a primary focus on optimizing our AWS Redshift environment and improving the performance of our data infrastructure.
What You'll Do
Optimize and maintain large-scale AWS Redshift clusters and data warehouse performance (60%)
Improve and support ETL pipelines using Kafka and ECS jobs (30%)
Enhance BI performance and data availability for reporting tools such as Looker (10%)
Prepare and expose data for AI-enabled applications and MCPs
Collaborate closely with the data engineering and BI teams
Required Qualifications
7–10 years of experience in data engineering, database administration, or related roles
Must be based in the United States
Extensive experience optimizing AWS Redshift clusters, including environments with hundreds of terabytes of data
Strong experience tuning, repairing, and maintaining heavily queried and frequently updated Redshift tables
Experience configuring and managing Kafka streams
Experience with Looker or a similar BI platform
Familiarity with Python and/or AI-enabled data workflows is a strong plus
Contract Type: 1099 (35 hours/ week) Duration: Through the end of the year (with an expected July start)