Description
Oura is an award-winning and fast-growing startup that helps people track all stages of sleep and activity using the Oura Ring and connected app. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking candidates who want to make an impact on our journey.
Oura is not a typical web app. We offer plenty of technically interesting challenges:
- Distributed systems: Multiple data producers, apps with offline support and real-time sync
- Modern Cloud Architecture: AWS + Containers + Managed services
- Large scale data: Oura customers generate terabytes of data
- Applied ML: Great data for building production machine learning systems
- Security: We handle sensitive user data, where security is not an afterthought
- Embedded / Bluetooth / C++ / low level programming
- A continuously growing user-base of highly active and passionate users
Oura has solid financial backing and a steady revenue stream.
Job Description
We are looking for a Distributed System Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team. Our team is responsible for efficient data synchronisation, structuring and processing. Our team combines the power of the ring & the app with backend services and integrations to provide a data rich platform. Our APIs power most Oura apps, services and machine learning components as well as provide the technical foundation for our growth.
You Will:
- Build and design our distributed data synchronization and processing systems in a modern cloud environment with a focus on data integrity and robustness
- Scale our event-driven architecture towards 10x scale and improve our system & data availability while doing it.
- Design for consistency, availability and compliance at multiple different granularities of data
- Establish system-wide design patterns with the team.
- Be involved in strategic technical decision-making and help solve our critical technical bottlenecks.
Requirements
We would love to have you on our team if you:
- Have strong experience running, monitoring and debugging production systems at scale on AWS (We are running on AWS infrastructure and use key AWS services like EC2, ECS, RDS, S3 and SQS)
- Have architected and built data-intensive distributed systems in production environments, and you can apply the proper architectural patterns
- Have a pragmatic can-do attitude and delivery-focused mindset: you can handle tradeoffs between short-term goals and long-term tech debt
- Can design for scale and growth: such as prepare for user demand peaks, and build fault tolerant systems
- Have solid programming skills in languages such as Python, Java or Scala
- Have a good understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Have built backend APIs using REST, gRPC, GraphQL or similar technologies
- Have solid experience of standard software development tools and practices: version control (git), issue tracking, unit testing and agile development processes
- Although not necessary, we appreciate experience developing and maintaining applications running on Docker
Together we will continue to define Oura as a company where you can:
- Be productive and do your best work
- Be part of a world-class engineering team following and helping define best practices
- Contribute to a product that improves the lives of 100s of thousands of people across the globe
- Be happy and have great work-life balance – we work efficiently, remove the fluff and pointless meetings, so that work continues to inspire and motivate you
- Grow on your chosen career path, be it technical, people, managerial or leadership skills, or any mix of those
Benefits
- Competitive Salaries
- Lunch benefit, weekly breakfast / healthy snacks and excellent coffee
- Wellness benefit
- Flexible working hours + work-life balance
- Collaborative, smart teammates
- An Oura ring of your own (if you want)
- Easy-to-reach office in Helsinki city center and Oulu Teknologiakylä
- Latest equipment of choice (laptop, phone, screen)