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.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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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.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and deliver major features for authentication and single sign-on services in a multi-tenant SaaS environment. You will build secure Java microservices and APIs, improve resilience and observability, drive testing and deployment practices, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call incident response.
Requirements
- OIDC
- SAML
- WS-Fed
- SSO
- Federation
- Identity provider configuration
- Service provider configuration
- Java
- Object-oriented design
- Cloud services
- Microservices
- REST API
- Spring
- ReactJS
- Technical design
- Architecture
- Production SaaS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Cassandra
- Kafka
- Event-driven systems
- OWASP
- PKI
- Cryptography
- Certificate and key management
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver authentication and SSO features
- Build secure Java microservices and APIs
- Support authentication authorization SSO federation and integrations
- Make technical decisions about performance reliability security and operations
- Collaborate on solutions through production rollout
- Improve resilience observability operability and deployment safety
- Raise engineering standards for testability and maintainability
- Drive test automation strategy
- Use AI-assisted development practices
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis
- Mentor engineers
Benefits
- Generous PTO and holiday schedule
- Parental leave
- Progressive healthcare options
- Retirement programs
- Education reimbursement
- Commuter offset for specific locations
- Employee Resource Groups
- Company and team bonding events
- Global volunteering and community initiatives
