[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Ōura

Role Description

Oura is looking for a platform-building engineer to design foundational data infrastructure that multiple product teams depend on. This role involves:

• Designing data transformation pipelines that convert raw health signals, user inputs, and third-party data into structured, queryable context.
• Architecting event-driven ingestion using tools like Kinesis, EventBridge, and SQS, handling duplicate events, traffic spikes, and partial failures gracefully.
• Defining flexible data models and schemas for a hierarchical health context ontology that evolves as new context types emerge.
• Building multi-consumer APIs and data contracts serving LLM-powered reasoning engines, mobile apps, and analytics pipelines through clean, well-documented interfaces.
• Operating and designing data storage at scale.
• Creating SDKs and integration surfaces that let other squads contribute and own contexts with minimal friction.
• Collaborating effectively in a globally distributed, diverse, and cross-functional team, adapting as Oura evolves and new opportunities emerge.
• Owning production quality end-to-end: testing, monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), alerting, and documentation.

At Oura, AI is a core part of how we build software. We encourage senior engineers to use tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot to accelerate pipeline development, iterate on schema design, prototype integration patterns, and reduce boilerplate.

Qualifications

• 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 - starting 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 - thinking in terms of data integrity, resilience, and failure modes before they become incidents.
• Excellent communication - explaining thinking before acting, asking incisive questions upfront, and articulating trade-offs clearly.
• Team-oriented mindset and enjoyment of working in a diverse environment with distributed teams.

Requirements

• Experience with FastAPI or AWS Lambda Powertools.
• Background in health data, wearables, or familiarity with FHIR/SNOMED/ICD.
• A privacy-first approach to engineering, with a solid understanding of the best practices for handling sensitive data (PHI/PII).
• Building infrastructure that feeds data to/from LLM-powered services.
• Familiarity with feature stores, embeddings, or vector databases.
• Experience in building efficient, scalable database schemas and/or query optimization.
• Infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK, Pulumi).
• Observability tooling: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
• Experience in globally distributed teams working asynchronously across time zones.
• Commitment to continuous learning and adaptability in expanding technical toolkit as the industry evolves.

Benefits

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. What we offer includes:

• 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.
• Market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location.
• Region 1: $172,550 - $203,000
• Region 2: $158,950 - $187,000
• Region 3: $147,900 - $174,000