Synthesis Health
Staff Platform Engineer (Edge & Ingestion)
Vancouver, BC · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$150kDetected 113 days ago
TypeScriptGoDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsGCPDockerKubernetesPlatform EngineeringKafkaNegotiationTCP/IPFirewallHL7/FHIRRadiologyLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Our 100% remote team is dedicated to a common goal - to revolutionize healthcare through innovation, collaboration, and commitment to our core values and behaviors.
- You will solve unique distributed systems challenges: How do you buffer terabytes of imaging data on-premise when the hospital's internet goes down?
- How do you safely auto-update thousands of remote agents behind strict enterprise firewalls?
Responsibilities
- On-Premise Gateway Reliability: You will architect our edge gateway software to run reliably within customer data centers. You will implement HA patterns to ensure that a single hardware failure never stops critical patient data flow.
- High-Performance Ingestion: You will optimize the ingestion path for massive DICOM studies and HL7 streams.
- You will implement local queuing and backpressure mechanisms that protect our core platform from being overwhelmed by "thundering herds" of data when connectivity is restored after an outage.
- Versioning & Fleet Management: You will design the control plane for our distributed fleet of gateways.
- Resilient Ingestion Strategy: You will design the cloud-side ingestion layer (using technologies like Kafka or PubSub) to absorb massive bursts of traffic.
- Load Shedding & Fairness: You will implement sophisticated fairness algorithms and load shedding strategies at the ingestion point to ensure that no single customer gateway can monopolize cloud resources or degrade the performance of the broader platform.
- Secure Tunnels: You will design the secure connectivity patterns (e.g., mutual TLS, reverse tunnels, VPNs) that allow our cloud to communicate with private hospital networks without requiring complex firewall exceptions.
- You will implement HA patterns to ensure that a single hardware failure never stops critical patient data flow.
- You will optimize the ingestion path for massive DICOM studies and HL7 streams.
- Collaborate with our customers.
Requirements
- Deep Edge & Networking Experience: 8+ years of engineering experience, with a focus on Edge Computing or Distributed Agents.
- Language Fluency: Deep expertise in Go (Golang) or TypeScript is required.
- You have shipped software that runs in customer environments (on-prem).
- Deep expertise in Go (Golang) or TypeScript is required.
Nice to have
- You understand the nuances of the association negotiation, transfer syntaxes, and strict acknowledgment requirements necessary to reliably accept data from legacy hospital systems.
- Why You Should Join Us
- Solve Our Toughest Puzzles: This is a high-leverage role.
- You will be working on the most impactful technical challenges that are critical to the company's success.
- Define the Architecture: You won't just be maintaining a system
- you will be a primary author of its future state, with the autonomy to make it happen.
- Clinical service first.
- Listen, respect, learn.
Skills
- Cloud Ingestion & Throughput Protection
- Network & Connectivity Security
Compensation
- Typical salary range for this position is $120,000 - $150,000 (CAD).
- However, Synthesis participates in location based hiring and salary ranges can be adjusted based on candidate's residence.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, "Use as needed" vacation policy, and participation in our employee option program.
- Compensation and Benefits
- Synthesis Health
Company info
- We're a mission- and values-driven company with tremendous dedication to our customers.
- We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to serve as the architect of our edge.
- About the Opportunity
- How do you enforce fairness and rate limiting to prevent one tenant from degrading the experience for everyone else?
- This is a hands-on leadership role.
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