Staff Software Engineer, Ping Identity

• Working knowledge of OIDC, SAML, and WS-Fed, including experience with SSO/federation integrations, protocol troubleshooting, and identity provider/service provider configuration
• Significant hands-on software engineering experience building and deploying highly scalable, high-performance cloud services, ideally in a multi-tenant SaaS environment
• Demonstrated Staff level Java development experience and fluency with object-oriented design and modern engineering practices
• Experience in UI development with having ReactJS preferred
• Experience designing and building microservices and REST APIs, ideally using Spring or similar frameworks
• Strong technical judgment and a track record of contributing to technical designs, proof-of-concept work, and architecture discussions
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively across a large, globally distributed engineering organization with many teams
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and improve team-wide engineering practices
• Experience operating or supporting production SaaS systems, including on-call responsibilities and incident response
• Comfort working with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and modern build and delivery tooling

Desirable

• Join the PingOne SSO team within the PingOne Multi-Tenant SaaS product development organization
• This team builds, enhances, and operates PingOne Authentication and SSO as a market-leading service through continuous innovation and service performance improvements
• The team owns core customer-facing services and capabilities related to applications, resources, external identity providers, and sign-on policies
• In practice, the team delivers the authentication and single sign-on layer of PingOne’s multi-tenant cloud identity platform, including standards-based SSO for SaaS and custom applications using SAML, OIDC, and OAuth 2
• 0, plus integrations with external identity providers and application connectivity
• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can turn ideas into production capabilities and work well in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional, and global engineering organization
• The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering fundamentals, sound technical judgment, creative problem-solving ability, and a passion for innovation and experimentation
• This role is well suited to someone who enjoys working across services, APIs, developer workflows, and user-facing capabilities, and who can use modern AI-assisted engineering tools pragmatically to accelerate discovery, design, and delivery
• Design and delivery of major features across PingOne Authentication and SSO services in a high-scale multi-tenant SaaS environment
• Architect and implement secure, reliable Java-based microservices and APIs that support authentication, authorization flows, SSO, federation, and application integrations
• Help drive technical decisions that balance product requirements, system performance, reliability, security, and operational simplicity
• Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, UX, SRE, and peer engineering teams to shape solutions from discovery through production rollout
• Improve service resilience, observability, operability, and deployment safety for mission-critical customer-facing services
• Help raise the team’s engineering standards around testability, maintainability, and production readiness in a continuous deployment environment
• Drive quality strategy and automation approaches in our test automation assets in a continuous integration, continuous deployment environment
• Use modern engineering and AI-assisted development practices to improve team effectiveness, quality, and delivery speed
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and help lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-through actions for production issues