Senior Data Engineer, Redshift Expert
Niuro · Remote ·
- Work mode
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Data engineering
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Salary
- USD 25 / hour
Short-term (1–2 week, full-time) remote contract for a senior data engineer to audit and optimize an Amazon Redshift setup — tuning distribution/sort keys, compression, queries, and WLM — and build ETL/ELT pipelines on the AWS data stack (S3, Glue, Lambda, Spectrum, Airflow/dbt). Open to LATAM-based candidates (excluding Argentina and Brazil) with U.S. Eastern Time overlap, starting at USD 25/hour
- - Review the current Redshift setup and identify performance, cost, reliability, and design issues.
- - Tune distribution keys, sort keys, compression, queries, and Workload Management.
- - Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Redshift and the AWS data stack.
- - Improve analytics-ready data models and document the changes and operating practices.
- - 5+ years of data engineering experience with deep production expertise in Amazon Redshift or Redshift Serverless.
- - Advanced SQL and demonstrated query tuning on large datasets.
- - Hands-on experience with S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, and Redshift Spectrum.
- - Experience with Airflow, dbt, Glue, or similar ETL/ELT tools.
- - C1 English and the ability to work independently with stakeholders.
Contract: 1 to 2 weeks, full-time. Remote in LATAM, excluding Argentina and Brazil, with overlap with U.S. Eastern Time. Compensation starts at USD 25 per hour.