Senior Backend Engineer, Context Hub

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. Weve helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

The

Context Hub

is a knowledge store within Ouras HealthOS platform. It ingests data from diverse sources, transforms it through both pipelines and LLM-based interpretation layers, and serves structured User Context. If Ouras intelligence systems are the brain, the Context Hub is the memory. This is an opportunity to be part of teams that are at the forefront of wearable technology, innovating and defining the future of Oura’s products through collaboration across different teams.

What You Will Do
This is a

platform-building role . Youll 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

How We Build With AI
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 - so you can focus on the hard problems. All code is reviewed and owned by the engineer. AI is a multiplier, not a crutch. Were looking for engineers who view AI as a coworker in the development loop, not just autocomplete.

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

Nice to Haves

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

Observability tooling: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry

Experience in globally distributed teams working asynchronously across time zones

Commitment to continuous learning. You’re someone who stays adaptable and is always looking to expand your technical toolkit as the industry evolves.

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.

What we offer:

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

Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Region 1 $172,550 - $203,000

Region 2 $158,950 - $187,000

Region 3 $147,900 - $174,000

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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