Synthesis Health · 8 hours ago
Sr. Staff Platform Engineer, Medical Data
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $205K/yr
10+ years expSynthesis Health is a mission-driven company focused on revolutionizing healthcare through innovation. The Sr. Staff Platform Engineer will serve as the key steward and architect of the medical data domain, ensuring the integrity of the logical data model and optimizing data ingestion pipelines.
Health CareMedicalWellness
Responsibilities
Domain Model Stewardship & Service Interaction: You will define and enforce the integrity of our logical data model. You will architect the patterns for how all internal services and external integrations interact with this model, ensuring data accuracy and structural flexibility are preserved across the entire platform
High-Throughput Ingestion Architecture: You will architect and optimize our ingestion pipelines to handle massive bursts of DICOM images and HL7 messages without latency or data loss
Standards & Interoperability: You will lead the strategy for FHIR, HL7, and DICOM interoperability, ensuring our platform speaks the language of modern healthcare fluently
Automate Compliance: You will design systems that enforce HIPAA, ISO 27001, and SOC2 requirements at the infrastructure and code level. You will build "compliance as code" to ensure audit readiness without manual toil
Data Governance: You will define the patterns for data residency, retention, and deletion, ensuring we meet strict legal and contractual obligations across global deployments
Systemic Data Consistency: You will solve hard problems regarding distributed data consistency, helping us move away from tight coupling while ensuring data correctness across services
Elevate the Platform: You will be the subject matter expert (SME) for healthcare data within the engineering organization, mentoring Staff and Senior engineers on the nuances of medical data standards and distributed data patterns
Qualification
Required
10+ years of engineering experience with a specific focus on healthcare data
Expert in DICOM (tags, transfer syntaxes, WADO/QIDO) and HL7/FHIR
Proven track record of building data pipelines that handle terabytes of medical imaging data
Deep expertise in TypeScript/Node.js
Experience leading language transitions or strong Go proficiency
Deep expertise in schema design for both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL environments
Experience with data lakes and warehousing (BigQuery/Snowflake) in a healthcare context
Experience with stream processing (Kafka/Dataflow) for real-time DICOM and HL7 feeds
Expertise in container orchestration (Kubernetes) at scale
Built systems that are HIPAA/GDPR compliant from the ground up
Ability to effectively communicate the business value of architectural investments to executive leadership
Preferred
Understanding of the physics of medical imaging (CT, MRI, X-Ray) and how it impacts data storage and rendering
Experience architecting data flows that feed AI models for clinical decision support
Experience architecting or operating Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) or Vendor Neutral Archives (VNA)
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
"Use as needed" vacation policy
Participation in our employee option program
Company
Synthesis Health
Synthesis Health provides diagnostic and interventional radiology services.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.83M2025-08-06Series Unknown· $1.83M
2023-01-01Seed
Leadership Team
Deepak Kaura
Chief Product Officer
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