Staff Software Engineer, IDM Engineering

Ping Identity•Portland, OR

6d•$132,000 - $165,000

About The Position

You will be an active member of an innovative and passionate team developing features and key extensions to a growing enterprise product platform for the market leader in Identity Security. There is a wide variety of work including API development, identity protocol implementation, authentication systems, security vulnerability mitigation, identity management and provisioning, and performance optimizations at a large scale. We seek a Staff Software Engineer who will be active in developing features and capabilities within our Identity Management product suite. We require a passionate developer who flourishes in a fast-moving, agile environment, has good communications skills, an outstanding ability to translate requirements and designs to functional Java code using agentic modeling, and strong attention to security, quality, testability and performance.

Requirements

Wide experience designing and developing large scale applications in the Java programming language
A strong understanding of HTTP and RESTful web services
Strong interpersonal communications skills
Exceptional problem-solving skills
Familiar with cloud architectures and deployment strategies (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
Experience using AI agents such as claude code to plan, validate, and implement functionality
The ability to learn quickly and independently, and are capable of gathering information and understanding complex features and environments

Nice To Haves

Experience with identity management technologies and protocols (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, certificate & key management, cryptography, etc.)
Understanding of enterprise-scale systems and configurations related to security
Experience building performant systems that deploy and execute at scale

Responsibilities

Design and develop large-scale, single- and multi-tenant, robust, cutting-edge Java-based identity management products
Collaborate effectively with the distributed team, with team members in the Portland, OR metro area, Canada, and Europe
Analyze and elaborate on requirements with product management and architects to improve the identity platform and develop new features for PingIDM
Plan, estimate, and manage development tasks independently and efficiently per business plans
Enable successful cloud deployments
Work closely with customer-facing support teams to resolve customer issues