Sr DataOps Engineer (Fully Remote)

Oportun; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Oportun is a mission-driven financial services company applying AI to empower members with affordable credit, savings, and budgeting tools. This Platform Engineer role focuses on maintaining reliable data-platform services, supporting Databricks, AWS, and multiple databases, and leading incident responses to minimize downtime and improve system health.

You will work on on-call shifts, drive root-cause investigations, and implement sustainable solutions that reduce repetitive work while improving

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform engineer experienced with data platforms and production systems.
• Ability to identify root causes and build sustainable, scalable fixes.
• Clear communicator who owns incident response and reduces repetitive work.

Responsibilities

• Keep critical data-platform services reliable, secure, performant, and cost-effective.
• Support Databricks, AWS infrastructure, databases, pipelines, and automation.
• Participate in on-call support and lead incident investigation, mitigation, and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

Delta Lake

AWS services

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Python

Bash

MariaDB/MySQL

MongoDB

Monitoring/Observability

Incident management

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Python

Bash

MariaDB/MySQL

MongoDB

Job description

• Oportun is a mission-driven financial services company that empowers members to achieve financial goals through intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting.


• We hold ourselves to a high bar, move fast, and embrace AI as a key part of how we work.

What You\'ll Do:

• Keep critical data-platform services reliable, secure, performant, and cost-effective.


• Support Databricks, AWS infrastructure, databases, pipelines, and automation.


• Participate in on-call support and lead incident investigation, mitigation, and root-cause analysis.

Who You Are:

• A hands-on platform engineer who enjoys solving complex production problems and improving systems behind critical data workloads.


• Someone who thinks beyond immediate issues, looks for root causes, and builds sustainable solutions.


• A clear communicator who takes ownership during incidents and consistently reduces repetitive work.

What You Bring:

• Strong experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and AWS services.


• Proficiency in Terraform, CI/CD, Git, and scripting languages like Python or Bash.


• Experience supporting MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, monitoring, observability, and production incident management.

Oportun is a mission-driven financial services company that provides affordable credit, savings, and budgeting tools to help members build financial stability. As a publicly traded company, it emphasizes innovation, speed, and AI adoption while maintaining a high-performance, collaborative culture.