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# Staff Software Engineer at Ping Identity

- **Company:** Ping Identity
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pingidentity/jobs/8675945002

## Job description

About Ping Identity:

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.](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/championing-every-identity.html) 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 with LDAP and OpenSearch for large-scale identity and search workloads.
- Cloud Platforms: Strong experience designing and operating applications on AWS, leveraging cloud-native services and infrastructure.
- Frontend: Working knowledge of React.js for building or contributing to modern web applications.
- Distributed Systems: Experience designing resilient, highly available, multi-tenant distributed systems with strong observability and operational excellence.

Desirable Skills

- Identity and Access Management (IAM), including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM provisioning, and SAML 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

Our Benefits:

- Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
- Parental Leave
- 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.

## About Ping Identity

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ping Identity provides identity security for the digital enterprise, enabling secure, frictionless access for users across any application or device.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Thoma Bravo in October 2022, formerly public NYSE: PING)
- **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, United States
- **Founded**: 2002
- **Founders**: Andre Durand, Bryan Field-Elliot

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cybersecurity
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises, B2B (over half of the Fortune 100 are customers)
- **Mission statement**: “Champion your unique identity needs” – enabling secure, convenient digital experiences for users while protecting organizations from threats.

## Products & Services
- **PingOne Cloud Platform**: Unified cloud-based identity platform with AI-powered intelligence (Helix AI) for authentication, authorization, and directory services.
- **PingFederate**: Federation server for single sign-on (SSO) and identity brokering across on-premises and cloud apps.
- **PingID**: Multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution for adaptive access.
- **PingAccess**: Reverse proxy for secure access management to web applications and APIs.
- **PingDirectory**: Enterprise directory server for identity storage and management.
- **PingAuthorize**: Dynamic policy-based access control for fine-grained authorization.
- **PingIntelligence**: AI-powered cyber threat detection and response for identity attacks.
- **PingOne for Customers**: Customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform.
- **PingOne for Workforce**: Workforce identity management with SSO, MFA, and lifecycle management.
- **Orchestration**: No-code drag-and-drop identity journey builder (6,500+ orchestrated capabilities, 350+ connectors).
- **Decentralized Identity**: Reusable verified credentials based on open standards.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed post-acquisition (prior to acquisition in 2022, market cap was ~$2.4B)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $299.4M (latest available data) — over 3 billion identities under management
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Owned by Thoma Bravo (private equity); partners include major cloud providers, system integrators, and technology vendors
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 14% YoY to 1,742 employees; recognized as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management (2025), Forrester Wave for CIAM (2024), and KuppingerCole Leadership; 99.99% uptime SLA; serves over half of the Fortune 100

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reliability**: Proven 99.99% uptime and 3 billion identities under management – built for the largest enterprises.
- **AI‑First Innovation**: Helix AI engine embedded across the platform for smarter threat detection, fraud prevention, and adaptive access.
- **Industry Recognition**: Consistently ranked as a Leader by Gartner, Forrester, and KuppingerCole for IAM, CIAM, and identity fabrics.
- **Open Standards & Interoperability**: Deep support for SAML, OAuth, OIDC, SCIM, and 350+ pre-built connectors, making it easy to integrate into existing ecosystems.
- **Flexible Deployment**: Cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud options.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑Driven Identity Security**: Deepening AI/ML capabilities (Helix) to combat fraud and automate identity decisions.
- **Expanding the Platform**: Growing the PingOne cloud platform with orchestration, decentralized identity, and zero‑trust delivery.
- **Customer Experience**: Simplifying complex identity journeys for both workforce and customer use cases through no‑code orchestration.
- **Global Reach**: Maintaining offices in 32 countries across North America, Europe, Asia‑Pacific, and the Middle East to serve enterprise customers 24/7.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Inclusion**: Strong emphasis on “Inclusion & Belonging” with seven Employee Resource Groups (Women of Ping, Ping Proud LGBTQ+, Working Families, Racial & Ethnic Diversity, Accessibility, Young Professionals, Ping Community Cares).
- **Global Flexibility**: “Here, There, Everywhere” approach – offices in Denver, Austin, Boston, Vancouver, Bristol, Edinburgh, Grenoble, London, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Melbourne, and more; open to hiring exceptional talent from around the world.
- **Benefits**: Competitive benefits vary by location; perks include opportunities for growth, volunteer programs (Hour of Code, Bikes for Kids, campus cleanups), and a focus on work‑life balance.
- **Engineering Culture**: Identians are encouraged to be “brave, passionate, and make a contribution” – a collaborative environment where everyone has a part to play.
- **Impact**: Work on identity security for the world’s largest organizations, including over half of the Fortune 100.

## Sources
1. [Ping Identity About Us](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/about-us.html)
2. [Ping Identity Homepage](https://www.pingidentity.com/en.html)
3. [Ping Identity Careers](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/careers.html)
4. [Ping Identity Open Positions](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/careers/careers-listings.html)
5. [Ping Identity LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ping-identity)

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