Staff Software Engineer

Ping Identity•Austin, TX

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Ping Identity is seeking an accomplished staff software engineer to join their PingOne Directory team. This role will drive the development of their industry-leading multi-tenant user store. The products address complex use cases, and the engineer will create solutions that manage this complexity elegantly. The role requires comfort in asking questions to colleagues at all levels to find information and ensure the right problem is being solved. The engineer will work on products offered as either SaaS or on-premise software and help raise engineering standards by mentoring others. They will participate in an on-call support rotation for a multi-tenant SaaS product. This is a remote position with 1-2 days per week required in the Austin-based office.

Requirements

Extensive hands-on development experience delivering major features for products with complex user workflows.
A product-minded approach to engineering, balancing technical constraints, scope, customer needs, and business goals.
Experience using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate different parts of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code generation, testing, refactoring, and code review.
Strong Java development experience, with a track record of applying object-oriented design principles to deliver high-quality, well-tested, maintainable software.
Experience with Spring or similar Java frameworks.
Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs, ideally within a microservice architecture.
Familiarity with containerized deployment environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with build automation tools such as Maven or Gradle.

Nice To Haves

Cassandra or other distributed NoSQL databases.
Kafka or other event-driven messaging technologies.
Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling.
Unix-based development or production environments.
Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Performance testing tools such as JMeter.
Operating or supporting production SaaS systems.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product, Architecture, UX, and SRE colleagues to define requirements and design new features, components, APIs, and microservices.
Lead feature development from discovery through to production, including technical design, implementation, review, testing, documentation, and operational readiness.
Make technical decisions that balance product needs, engineering quality, performance, security, and delivery constraints.
Work on products offered to customers as either SaaS or on-premise software.
Help raise engineering standards by mentoring others through code reviews, technical feedback, design discussions, pairing, and knowledge-sharing.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within an agile delivery team.
Participate in an on-call support rotation for a multi-tenant SaaS product.