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# Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer (Contract | 1099)

- **Company:** Brain Trust, LLC
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $260,000.0 - $312,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Apache Kafka, Tools for Reporting, Looker Analytics, Amazon Redshift
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d2cf3ec34e7e1bc2

## About the Role

* 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

## 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., * 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


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