ŌURA

Senior Backend Engineer, Context Hub

ŌURA

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: AlaskaIowaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $172,550 - $203,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design foundational data infrastructure that multiple product teams depend on - not ship features in isolation.
  • Design data transformation pipelines that convert raw health signals, user inputs, and third-party data into structured, queryable context
  • Architect event-driven ingestion using tools like Kinesis, EventBridge, and SQS - handling duplicate events, traffic spikes, and partial failures gracefully
  • Define flexible data models and schemas for a hierarchical health context ontology that evolves as new context types emerge
  • Build multi-consumer APIs and data contracts serving LLM-powered reasoning engines, mobile apps, and analytics pipelines through clean, well-documented interfaces
  • Operate and design data storage at scale
  • Create SDKs and integration surfaces that let other squads contribute and own contexts with minimal friction
  • Collaborate effectively in a globally distributed, diverse, and cross-functional team, adapting as Oura evolves and new opportunities emerge.
  • Own production quality end-to-end: testing, monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), alerting, and documentation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years building and operating production data systems at scale in Python
  • Experience designing event-driven architectures - message brokers, event streams, CDC pipelines, with understanding of delivery guarantees, fan-out, and backpressure
  • Deep experience with data transformation pipelines - ingesting from heterogeneous sources, normalizing, enriching, and serving with clear data contracts
  • Strong technical grasp of AWS ecosystems with a focus on varied data storage solutions (RDS, DynamoDB, etc.), asynchronous messaging (SQS, EventBridge), and scalable compute environments like EKS and Lambda.
  • A data-model-first mindset - you start with the shape of the data and access patterns before jumping to service architecture
  • Experience building shared platforms or APIs that multiple teams depend on, with thoughtful versioning and self-service integration patterns
  • Strong systems design instincts - you think in terms of data integrity, resilience, and failure modes before they become incidents
  • Excellent communication - you explain your thinking before acting, ask incisive questions upfront, and articulate trade-offs clearly
  • Have a team-oriented mindset and enjoy working in a diverse environment with distributed teams.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and equity packages
  • Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
  • An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
  • 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
  • Paid sick leave and parental leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythondata transformation pipelinesevent-driven architecturemessage brokersevent streamsCDC pipelinesdata modelingdata integrityresiliencefailure modes
Soft Skills
excellent communicationteam-oriented mindsetcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingcritical thinkingincisive questioningarticulating trade-offsworking in diverse environmentscross-functional teamwork