Senior Staff Software Engineer
Ping Identity provides an identity security platform for the digital enterprise, offering identity, access management, orchestration, and fraud prevention solutions. They serve large organizations across government, financial services, healthcare, retail, and media & telco sectors.
Funding
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About Ping Identity
Ping Identity offers the Ping Identity Platform, an identity security solution providing capabilities for identify, manage, access, and govern needs, with support for any identity and any experience. The platform is powered by Helix, an AI engine driving intelligent identity services, and supports orchestration through a no-code, drag-and-drop interface, decentralized identity with reusable verified credentials, and fraud prevention capabilities. Ping Identity serves some of the world's largest organizations, including government agencies (e.g., State of Connecticut), financial services firms (e.g., Coast Capital), healthcare companies (e.g., Philips), retailers (e.g., Best Buy), and media & telco companies (e.g., The BBC), helping them reduce fraud, improve customer experience, and scale digital identity services across 6,500+ orchestrated capabilities and 350+ connectors.
Skills
About the Role
You will architect proactive, automated security and scaling frameworks for enterprise identity software. You will define technical strategy, design automated vulnerability remediation and dependency-management solutions, establish security standards, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across regions, and embed automated unit and integration testing into the architecture.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of software engineering experience operating as a principal or senior staff architect for enterprise-grade, large-scale systems.
- Expert-level Java knowledge and familiarity with the enterprise Java ecosystem, open-source libraries, and performance tuning at scale.
- Experience architecting automated CI/CD guardrails, automated dependency workflows, or self-healing infrastructure.
- Understanding of HTTP, TLS, and core web application constraints.
- Experience driving technical alignment across distributed engineering teams.
- Knowledge of identity management technologies and protocols, including SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, certificate management, and cryptography.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Git, Jenkins, Maven, Spring, Jackson, JDBC, and SQL.
- Familiarity with React, Redux, and JavaScript.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement automated security guardrails, continuous patching architecture, and intelligent dependency management.
- Partner with Product Management and Security leadership to define a three-year technical roadmap.
- Establish architectural patterns, security standards, and automation frameworks across distributed agile engineering teams.
- Mentor and develop Senior and Staff engineers.
- Collaborate with local and global colleagues to align engineering efforts.
- Work with Software Quality Engineers to build automated unit and integration testing frameworks into the architecture.
Benefits
- Generous PTO and holiday schedule.
- Parental leave.
- Progressive healthcare options.
- Retirement programs.
- Education reimbursement.
- Commuter offset for specific locations.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Regular company and team bonding events.
- Global volunteering and community initiatives.
