Senior Data Engineer, Amazon Redshift Expert
Niuro is hiring a Senior Data Engineer for a U.S. tax technology company. This is a focused 1 to 2 week, full-time contract for an expert who can improve the performance, cost efficiency, design, and reliability of an Amazon Redshift environment.
You will:
- 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.
You bring:
- 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.
Nice to have: Python, dbt, product analytics data pipelines, and experience in fintech or another regulated industry.
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.
Location: Remote - Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Skills required for this job:
- AWS
- Data engineering
- Data pipelines
- Fintech
- Python
- SQL