Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform Admin (US – East Coast)

ŌURA is a company focused on empowering individuals to understand and improve their health through innovative products. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform Admin to manage and scale their Databricks environment, ensuring effective data governance and supporting cross-domain data integration.

Responsibilities:

• Own day-to-day administration, configuration, and health of Oura's global Databricks environment, serving stakeholders across IT, business, and data science domains
• Manage workspace governance: access controls, cluster policies, cost monitoring, job scheduling, and security configurations
• Support onboarding of new teams and use cases onto the Databricks platform as Oura unifies data across Finance, SDM, Commerce, Marketing, and other domains
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, reliability issues, and cost inefficiencies
• Maintain SLAs for platform availability and incident response across global time zones
• Partner with IT and Data Architecture teams to align platform configurations with Databricks best practices and Oura's Data Mesh approach
• Contribute to data pipeline development and Spark workload optimization
• Support data engineers working across domain-specific initiatives (Finance, Membership, HW/SC, etc.)
• Assist with CI/CD tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and platform automation

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or platform/infrastructure engineering
• Hands-on Databricks administration experience: workspace management, cluster configuration, access control (Unity Catalog preferred), and job orchestration
• Strong understanding of Apache Spark and distributed compute fundamentals
• Experience running production data systems on AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, IAM) or equivalent cloud platforms
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools and CI/CD practices
• Ability to support and communicate with non-technical stakeholders across multiple business domains
• Self-motivated and comfortable operating with autonomy in a distributed team environment
• Databricks Certified Administrator or equivalent certification
• Experience with Unity Catalog and data governance at scale
• Familiarity with Data Mesh principles and domain-oriented platform design
• Experience in a high-growth, multi-stakeholder data environment