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Staff Software Engineer

CAN - Hybrid - Vancouver

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. 

Join our team:

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.


What you'll do

  • 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.

Essential Qualifications

  • 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.


Nice to have

  • Experience evaluating or building capabilities related to AI agents, agent identity, non-human identity, MCP, or adjacent integration concepts.
  • Familiarity with Cassandra, Kafka, and event-driven distributed systems.
  • Experience working across multiple codebases, teams, or product areas to ship cohesive outcomes
  • Familiarity with secure coding practices, OWASP guidance, and adjacent security technologies such as PKI, cryptography, and certificate/key management.

Salary Range: $122,000 - $163,000 

In accordance with Pay Transparency Act the approximate compensation range for this role in Canada is listed above. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors, such as knowledge, skills, and abilities.

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.

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