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.