Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer (Contract | 1099)

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., * 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

• 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

4.54.5 out of 5 stars Seattle, WA 98101 Remote $125 - $150 an hour - Full-time, Contract