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• Full-time

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What you’ll do

• Own company DICOM image ingestion, routing, and storage infrastructure.
• Become an expert in operating our existing DICOM systems while designing the architecture for the next order of magnitude in scale and customer requirements.
• Design and build reliable, observable processing pipelines for images and binary data at scale.
• Monitor and optimize our DICOM infrastructure for throughput, latency, correctness, and cost.
• Support New Lantern’s integration team in establishing connectivity with customer PACS systems.
• Collaborate with radiologists and PACS admins/IT staff to discover requirements, build prototypes, and validate solutions.
• Partner with product and viewer teams to enable new products and workflows.

You have

• 6+ years backend/infrastructure experience, including building and owning at least one large‑scale data pipeline.
• Deep experience with a modern, object-oriented programming language, including a web framework.
• Systems programming & ops/admin experience (networking, linux/POSIX, concurrency, filesystems, memory management, etc.)
• Experience architecting and building systems on a major cloud platform.
• An end-to-end ownership mindset across design, implementation, testing, and monitoring.

Nice to haves

• Deep Python experience, including a Python web framework (ideally Django).
• Prior contributions to dcm4che(e)/orthanc/etc. or other image processing or medical imaging software.
• Knowledge of DICOM, PACS systems, and networking (addressing, routing, TLS, VPNs), both standards and industry practices.
• Experience with streaming and batch data pipelines and object storage at scale.

[1] a radiology image archive & viewer (PACS), a medical report dictation system, and work management system