Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer (Contract | 1099)

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