Staff Platform Engineer (Edge & Ingestion)

Deep Edge & Networking Experience: 8+ years of engineering experience, with a focus on Edge Computing or Distributed Agents.

You understand the physics of the internet, from TCP congestion control to TLS handshakes.

Hybrid/On-Prem Expertise: You have shipped software that runs in customer environments (on-prem).

You understand the constraints of enterprise firewalls, proxies, and limited bandwidth.

Queuing & Streaming: Expert-level knowledge of asynchronous architectures using Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Dataflow, or Kafka.

Given our GCP environment, deep proficiency with Pub/Sub and Dataflow is highly preferred.

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.

Other benefits include, but are not limited to: Medical, Dental, Vision, “Use as needed” vacation policy, and participation in our employee option program.

You will own the "Customer Edge"—the mission-critical software gateways that run inside hospital networks, acting as the secure bridge for DICOM and HL7 data into our cloud platform.

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?

How do you enforce fairness and rate limiting to prevent one tenant from degrading the experience for everyone else?

You will write high-performance code, define the architectural patterns for edge ingestion, and mentor engineers on the nuances of network reliability and secure tunneling.

Customer Gateway Architecture & High Availability (HA)

We’re a mission- and values-driven company with tremendous dedication to our customers. Our 100% remote team is dedicated to a common goal – to revolutionize healthcare through innovation, collaboration, and commitment to our core values and behaviors.