Job description
<div class="content-intro"><p>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. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.</p> <p>Empowering the world starts with living <a href="https://ouraring.com/about-us">our values</a> 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. </p></div><p>Our engineering organization consists of many talented developers distributed across the EU and US. For day-to-day feature work, our engineers are organized into smaller cross-functional feature squads or teams. Our squads have a great deal of autonomy and are responsible for the development and architecture of their features. Squads take full ownership of their code and handle everything from concepting, design and implementation to release, maintenance and bug fixes.</p> <p>This is a remote US role with a preference for candidates based in the US-Pacific timezone. We have offices in San Francisco and San Diego for those who prefer hybrid or office settings. We also have employee hubs in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles
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Daniel is a strong fit for a Senior Backend Engineer (Python) role: he builds and maintains Python backend services, REST APIs, and AWS-based data pipelines (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) with a deep focus on reliability, test coverage, and CI/CD — exactly what Oura's autonomous, ownership-driven squads need for connected health-device data at scale. His medical-device background maps well to Oura's health/wearable data domain. The main gap is that his heaviest recent production Python systems are self-directed projects and test/validation frameworks rather than large-team consumer-app backends, and his AWS breadth is focused on a few core services.
Tailored resume highlights
- Build and maintain Python backend services and data pipelines for connected medical devices, ensuring reliable, high-quality data delivery and system performance at scale.
- Implement AWS-based backend solutions (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) supporting scalable data processing, telemetry, and monitoring for connected-device platforms.
- Own end-to-end delivery of production Flask/Python web services on self-hosted Linux — hardened endpoints, per-IP rate limiting, automated cron data pipelines, and self-healing watchdogs — taking features from concept to monitored production.
- Develop Python automation frameworks integrated into Jenkins CI/CD, enabling reproducible deployments and reducing manual regression effort by 40%.
- Lead root-cause analysis of complex, field-found issues across embedded and cloud components, reproducing rare defects and driving cross-team resolution.
"Why this company?" (draft — personalize before sending)
Oura turns wearable-device signals into health insight people actually trust, and that's the exact intersection I work at. At Medtronic I build Python backend services and AWS pipelines that move connected-device telemetry reliably — in regulated medical software, correctness isn't optional, and I'd bring that same standard to your health data. I also ship production Flask/Python services end-to-end myself, so your squads' full-ownership model — concept through maintenance — is how I already operate. Working on backend systems that help millions understand their sleep, activity, and readiness is a mission I'd genuinely care about.
Cover letter (review before sending)
Dear Oura Hiring Team,
I'm applying for the Senior Backend Engineer (Python) role because building reliable backend services for connected health devices is exactly the work I do today. At Medtronic, I design and maintain Python backend services and AWS-based pipelines (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) that deliver telemetry from connected medical devices, with reliability and correctness treated as requirements rather than features. I integrate Python automation into Jenkins CI/CD for reproducible deployments, and I lead root-cause analysis of complex, cross-team issues.
Outside of work, I ship production Flask/Python services end-to-end on a self-hosted Linux server — hardened endpoints, rate limiting, automated data pipelines, and self-healing watchdogs serving real traffic. That ownership-from-concept-to-maintenance mindset matches how your squads operate.
Oura's mission of turning device data into trustworthy health insight sits right at the intersection of my backend, cloud, and safety-critical experience. I'd welcome the chance to contribute.
Sincerely,
Daniel Maynard
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distributed systemsfeature ownershipbackend architectureAPI designcross-functional squadsremote collaborationproduction monitoringscalable data processing
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