Staff Software Engineer

Jobtailor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ping Identity's PingOne Directory team is seeking a seasoned Java engineer to drive delivery across multi-tenant user stores. You will collaborate with product, architecture, UX, and SRE to design features, APIs, and microservices, and lead development from discovery to production with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.

The role involves mentoring engineers, contributing to agile process improvements, and participating in on-call rotations for a SaaS/on-prem product.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on development experience delivering major features for products with complex user workflows.
• Product-minded engineering balancing technical constraints, scope, customer needs, and business goals.
• Experience using AI-assisted workflows across the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead feature development from discovery through production, including technical design, implementation, review, testing, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, UX, and SRE colleagues to define requirements and design features, components, APIs, and microservices.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical feedback, design discussions, pairing, and knowledge-sharing.
• Contribute to continuous improvement within an agile delivery team.
• Participate in an on-call support rotation for a multi-tenant SaaS product.

Skills

Java Development

RESTful API Design

Microservice Architecture

Spring Framework

Docker

Kubernetes

Maven

Gradle

Kotlin

IAM

Tools

Kafka

Cassandra

Jenkins

JMeter

React

Angular

CI/CD Tooling

Job description

• Join the PingOne Directory team and help drive development of a multi-tenant user store
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, UX, and SRE colleagues to define requirements and design features, components, APIs, and microservices
• Lead feature development from discovery through production, including technical design, implementation, review, testing, documentation, and operational readiness
• Make technical decisions balancing product needs, engineering quality, performance, security, and delivery constraints
• Work on SaaS and on-premise software products
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical feedback, design discussions, pairing, and knowledge-sharing
• Contribute to continuous improvement within an agile delivery team
• Participate in an on-call support rotation for a multi-tenant SaaS product

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 across the software development lifecycle
• Strong Java development experience and object-oriented design principles
• Experience with Spring or similar Java frameworks
• Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs, ideally within a microservice architecture
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Maven or Gradle
• Beneficial: Cassandra or other distributed NoSQL databases
• Beneficial: Kafka or other event-driven messaging technologies
• Beneficial: Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling
• Beneficial: Unix-based development or production environments
• Beneficial: Kotlin
• Beneficial: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Beneficial: Performance testing tools such as JMeter
• Beneficial: React, Angular, or other modern frontend frameworks
• Beneficial: Operating or supporting production SaaS systems

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive hands-on development experience in delivering major features for complex user workflows, with a strong focus on Java development, RESTful API design, and microservice architecture. Capable of mentoring engineers and contributing to continuous improvement within an agile delivery team while balancing product needs and technical constraints.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Java Development
• RESTful API Design
• Microservice Architecture
• Agile Delivery
• Mentoring Engineers

Hard Skills

• Object-Oriented Design
• Spring Framework
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Maven
• Gradle
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• Jenkins
• Performance Testing

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Technical Feedback
• Knowledge Sharing

Industry Keywords

• SaaS
• Multi-Tenant Architecture
• Identity and Access Management
• Event-Driven Messaging

Tools & Technologies

• CI/CD Tooling
• Unix-Based Environments
• AI-Assisted Workflows
• Frontend Frameworks