Senior Software Engineer

Ping Identity•Vancouver, BC

1d•CA$91,000 - CA$113,000

About The Position

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 Senior Software Engineer who can deliver high-quality production capabilities and work effectively 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.

Requirements

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 Senior-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.
Experience operating or supporting production SaaS systems, including on-call responsibilities and incident response.
Comfortable working with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and modern build and delivery tooling.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and deliver features across PingOne Authentication and SSO services in a high-scale multi-tenant SaaS environment.
Implement secure, reliable Java-based microservices and APIs that support authentication, authorization flows, SSO, federation, and application integrations.
Contribute to technical designs and engineering 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.
Contribute to engineering quality through strong testing, automation, code reviews, and maintainable implementation practices in a 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.