Sr. Platform Engineer

Ritten; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ritten is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the reliability, infrastructure, and developer experience for our healthcare platform. You will work at the intersection of backend systems and cloud infrastructure, building primitives that accelerate feature development and maturing observability and alerting.

Hybrid role with 1–2 days in the office for teams near New York City, Philadelphia, Denver, or Washington, D.C.— collaboration with senior engineers and the CTO will shape technical

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend systems or cloud infra.
• Hands-on IaC and cloud resource management experience (GCP preferred).
• Proficient in Golang, PostgreSQL, or GCP infra.
• Comfort operating across application and infrastructure layers.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Scale backend systems across Golang, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud.
• Own and evolve infrastructure-as-code footprint: cloud resource management, environment provisioning, deployment pipelines.
• Solve performance bottlenecks in data-heavy healthcare environment (low-latency APIs, background jobs, indexing).
• Advance observability and alerting maturity, including SLO adoption and on-call tooling.
• Define platform-level patterns (auth, caching, CI/CD, deployment strategies).
• Collaborate with senior engineers and CTO on technical direction.

Skills

Backend systems

Golang

PostgreSQL

GCP

IaC

Observability

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Go

Google Cloud

Job description

Engineering

Sr. Platform Engineer

Hybrid Full-time

About Ritten

Ritten is building the modern operating system for behavioral health facilities. We've expanded from core clinical software into a full platform that powers every workflow in a clinic — from scheduling andpatient treatment to billing and revenue operations. Our software already supports hundreds of facilitiesnationwide and is scaling quickly as we bring modern engineering to a part of healthcare that hashistorically been underserved.

Role Overview

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to own the reliability, infrastructure, and developer experience that Ritten's platform runs on. You'll work at the intersection of backend systems and cloudinfrastructure — building platform primitives that make feature development safer and faster, maturingour observability and alerting posture, and partnering closely with product engineers as our customer basegrows.

What You'll Do

• Build and scale backend systems across Golang, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud.
• Own and evolve our infrastructure-as-code footprint — cloud resource management, environmentprovisioning, and deployment pipelines.
• Solve performance bottlenecks in a complex, data-heavy healthcare environment (low-latencyAPIs, background job orchestration, indexing strategies).
• Drive observability and alerting maturity — including SLO adoption, on-call tooling, andbuilding toward proactive outage detection across GCP.
• Establish and improve platform-level patterns (auth, caching, CI/CD, deployment strategies) thatthe broader engineering team builds on.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and the CTO on technical direction.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years building backend systems and/or cloud infrastructure, ideally in high-growth SaaS.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud resource management (GCPpreferred).
• Depth in at least one of: Golang, PostgreSQL, or GCP infrastructure.
• Comfortable operating across both application and infrastructure layers.
• Pragmatic problem-solver with strong communication skills.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Your work shapes the technical foundation of a platform used daily in clinics that treataddiction and mental health.
• Scope: Small team, huge mandate — you'll directly influence infrastructure, reliability, andplatform culture.
• Trajectory: Series B company with strong runway, serving hundreds of facilities nationwide andgrowing fast.
• Innovation: We're actively integrating AI across our platform — including observability toolingand clinician-facing features. You'll help shape how AI is responsibly adopted in aHIPAA-regulated environment, not just watch it happen from the sidelines.
• Team: Collaborative engineers who care about craft, not ego.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation packages, including strong cash salaries benchmarked against topstartups at our stage, along with comprehensive healthcare benefits.

Location/Work Policy

We're a hybrid-friendly company with an expectation of about 1–2 days per week in the office for employees located near New York City, Philadelphia, Denver, or Washington, D.C.