Staff Software Engineer

Ping Identity; India; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Competitive benefits

Education reimbursement

Retirement programs

Global volunteering

Job summary

Ping Identity seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead evolution of its global, multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will design and implement services powering millions of identities, ensuring scalability and fast delivery.

Mandate: scale, performance, operational excellence with SRE/DevOps, design reviews, and AI adoption across product and SDLC. Requires 10+ years, 4+ in Staff role, Java & Spring Boot, Kafka, LDAP/OpenSearch, AWS, React.js, Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in Staff role focused on large-scale SaaS.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong knowledge of Java, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines with SRE/DevOps collaboration.
• Drive design reviews and maintain high-quality code.
• Champion AI adoption across product and SDLC.

Skills

Java & Spring Boot

Apache Kafka

Distributed Systems

React.js

IAM (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM,

LDAP

OpenSearch

Kubernetes

AWS

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the evolution of our global, multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of services that power millions of identities, ensuring scalability, and high-velocity delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Scalability & Performance:Lead the design of distributed systems capable of handling rapid global growth while maintaining low latency.
• Operational Excellence:Partner with SRE and DevOps to enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated scaling, and self-healing infrastructure.
• Technical Leadership:Drive rigorous design reviews, and foster a culture of high-quality, maintainable code.
• AI Adoption: Passionate about the technical adoption of AI across both product capabilities and the software development lifecycle (SDLC), driving design, implementation, and best practices.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• Java & Spring Boot: Deep expertise in building high-scale microservices, including connection pooling, JVM tuning, asynchronous programming, cache management (including tenant-aware caching), and REST API design.
• Apache Kafka: Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, including consumer groups, partitioning strategies, tenant fan-out, event sourcing patterns, and exactly-once processing.
• Data Technologies: Hands-on experience withLDAPandOpenSearchfor large-scale identity and search workloads.
• Cloud Platforms: Strong experience designing and operating applications onAWS, leveraging cloud-native services and infrastructure.
• Frontend: Working knowledge ofReact.jsfor building or contributing to modern web applications.
• Distributed Systems: Experience designing resilient, highly available, multi-tenant distributed systems with strong observability and operational excellence.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM), includingOAuth 2.0,OpenID Connect,SCIM provisioning, andSAML federation.
• Identity lifecycle management, including provisioning, synchronization, and governance concepts.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Experience building enterprise SaaS platforms serving large-scale customers with stringent security and compliance requirements.

Qualifications:

• Experience: Minimum 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in Staff role focused on large-scale SaaS.
• Education:BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

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
• Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
• 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.