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Braintrust

Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer (Contract | 1099)

Braintrust
Austin, TX $140 - $173/hr Contract Posted 7d ago
Amazon Web Services Analytics Cloud Cloud Platforms Data Analytics Data Engineer Data Integration Data Pipeline Data Platform Data Processing Data Visualization Data Warehouse ETL Redshift Reporting and Analytics
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Job Description

Braintrust is seeking a Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer to join on a full-time 1099 contract through year-end. This onsite role in Austin, TX centers on optimizing the AWS Redshift environment and the broader data infrastructure to support scalable analytics and AI-enabled workflows. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with data engineering and BI teams to improve data availability and reporting performance.

Responsibilities

  • Tune and maintain large-scale AWS Redshift clusters and data warehouses to sustain high performance and reliability
  • Develop and support ETL pipelines using Kafka streams and ECS-based jobs
  • Enhance BI performance and data accessibility for Looker and other reporting tools
  • Prepare data assets for AI-enabled applications and MCPs
  • Work collaboratively with data engineering and BI teams to align data flows and analytics goals

Requirements

  • Seven to ten years of experience in data engineering, database administration, or related roles
  • Based in the United States
  • Extensive experience optimizing AWS Redshift clusters, including environments with hundreds of terabytes of data
  • Strong track record 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
  • Amazon ECS
  • Looker
  • Python

Compensation

  • Hourly rate: USD 140 - 173

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