Staff Software Engineer (DevTools)

About Ping Identity: 

At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. We call this digital freedom. And it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that inspires our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it. 

Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear. 

While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. We champion every identity. One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work. 

We're headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management. 

Who we are:

The DevTools team sits in the center of all of our SaaS offerings. Ping Identity offers critical Identity-as-a-Service products for enterprise customers, where reliability and security are highly valued. To support this, Ping builds a bespoke platform-as-a-service on top of Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies allowing our product to be built reliably and securely. The DevTools team owns the continuous delivery model and supporting tools of this platform, as well as self-service tooling for allowing product teams to confidently automate their infrastructure with reduced stack complexity. It is our team’s mission to remove operational and knowledge barriers for developers to push changes to production, automating necessary manual gates, and to reduce the risk in a deployment by building a repeatable pipeline, in one of the world’s most highly secured development environments.

What you’ll do:

Our team works in three major focus areas:

• Build and support the continuous delivery capabilities of the platform, allowing product group teams to deploy to production continually and with minimal risk
• Build and support self-service infrastructure automation for common platform capabilities
• Build and support audit features and security controls for audit, legal and security stakeholders

Day-to-day, you’ll also work with Kubernetes and Jenkins quite a bit. We also maintain Spring-Boot apps, Jenkins plugins, and building pipeline-as-code in both Jenkins and ArgoCD. Knowledge in  groovy, python, BASH, JSON, and anything Kubernetes are huge plus!

As an internal, shared services team we will have full access to our customers - over 300 developers, SREs, and QA - to understand their needs and provide solutions.

As a staff engineer, you’ll be responsible for technical leadership: mentoring junior engineers, coaching engineering best practices, being a ‘thought leader’ by keeping current and up to date on emerging technologies, and being reliable for completing critical infrastructure work. A good person in this role takes inspiration from new challenges and the ability to learn, grow, and innovate with like-minded people.

Requirements:

• 8 years professional experience in a developer or DevOps role
• Strong understanding of Java, Groovy, Ruby or Python programming languages
• A harmony of technical and people leadership skills
• You like investigating and solving complex problems
• Passion for learning and implementing new technologies in a group setting, mentoring junior team members
• Self-directed, able to accomplish tasks with minimal hand-holding
• At least one memorable mistake that made you a better engineer today
• Kubernetes, Docker, Groovy, BASH script, AWS, Jenkins

Good experience to have, but not required, as you’ll be working with:

• Python
• Vault
• Terraform
• Test driven development or Agile environment experience
• Spring MVC, Junit
• Databases such as Cassandra or MySQL
• Proteus
• Maven or gradle
• ArgoCD
• Any open source work

Life at Ping:

We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We’re growing quickly, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most importantly, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that’s who we want to succeed with every day. 

Here are just a few of the things that make Ping special:

• A company culture that empowers you to do your best work.
• Employee Resource Groups that create a sense of belonging for everyone.
• Regular company and team bonding events.
• Competitive benefits and perks.
• Global volunteering and community initiatives

Our Benefits: 

• Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule 
• Parental Leave
• Progressive Healthcare Options
• Retirement Programs
• Opportunity for Education Reimbursement 
• Commuter Offset (Specific locations) 

Ping is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone’s individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.