Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer (Contract | 1099)

This is a contract role for a Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer at Braintrust, based onsite in Seattle, WA, through year-end. The incumbent will optimize the AWS Redshift environment and data infrastructure to support scalable analytics and data workflows.

Location

Seattle, WA (onsite)

Salary

USD 140 - 173 per hour

Contract Type

1099 (approximately 35 hours per week)

Duration

Through the end of the year, with an expected July start.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Technologies

• AWS Redshift
• Kafka
• ECS
• Looker
• Python