Staff Software Engineer Backend
Ping Identity Corporation is an active enterprise identity-security company offering the Ping Identity Platform for customer, B2B, workforce, and AI-agent identity use cases.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Ping Identity Corporation
Ping Identity develops and operates identity and access management and identity-security products, including identity verification, identity management, authentication, authorization, threat protection, fraud prevention, and orchestration. Its offerings support multi-tenant SaaS, dedicated-tenant SaaS, self-managed software, and FedRAMP High deployments.
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About the Role
Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs; deliver complex projects from technical design through rollout and iteration; build event-driven workflows; improve reliability and data access; and raise code quality through reviews and documentation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience with Java and Spring Boot building and operating production systems
- System design, API design, data modeling, and maintainable, well-tested code
- AWS infrastructure experience, including networking, compute, storage, and managed services
- SQL database experience with Postgres or MySQL and NoSQL experience with DynamoDB, MongoDB, or Cassandra
- Kafka and message or queue system experience, including delivery semantics and failure handling
- Caching patterns and cache invalidation strategies using Redis or Memcached
- Observability practices including structured logging, metrics, tracing, and logging or monitoring tools
- Computer Science or Engineering degree, or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, evolvable backend services and APIs
- Deliver complex projects end-to-end, including technical design, implementation, testing, rollout, and iteration
- Build event-driven and asynchronous workflows with Kafka and queue-based systems
- Own service reliability through monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and post-incident improvements
- Partner with Infrastructure/SRE to build and operate AWS systems
- Define and improve SQL and NoSQL data access patterns, migrations, and performance tuning
- Implement caching strategies using Redis or Memcached
- Raise code quality through reviews, documentation, testing standards, and operational readiness
Benefits
- Generous PTO and holiday schedule
- Parental leave
- Healthcare options
- Retirement programs
- Education reimbursement
- Commuter offset in specific locations
- Employee Resource Groups
- Company and team bonding events
- Volunteering and community initiatives