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.

People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. 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. This team builds, enhances, and operates PingOne Authentication and SSO as a market-leading service through continuous innovation and service performance improvements. The team owns core customer-facing services and capabilities related to applications, resources, external identity providers, and sign-on policies.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can turn ideas into production capabilities and work well in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional, and global engineering organization. The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering fundamentals, sound technical judgment, creative problem-solving ability, and a passion for innovation and experimentation. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys working across services, APIs, developer workflows, and user-facing capabilities, and who can use modern AI-assisted engineering tools pragmatically to accelerate discovery, design, and delivery.

Architect and implement secure, reliable Java-based microservices and APIs that support authentication, authorization flows, SSO, federation, and application integrations.



Help drive technical decisions that balance product requirements, system performance, reliability, security, and operational simplicity. Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, UX, SRE, and peer engineering teams to shape solutions from discovery through production rollout.

Improve service resilience, observability, operability, and deployment safety for mission-critical customer-facing services. Help raise the team’s engineering standards around testability, maintainability, and production readiness in a continuous deployment environment. Drive quality strategy and automation approaches in our test automation assets in a continuous integration, continuous deployment environment.

Use modern engineering and AI-assisted development practices to improve team effectiveness, quality, and delivery speed. Participate in the team’s on-call rotation and help lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-through actions for production issues. Working knowledge of OIDC, SAML, and WS-Fed, including experience with SSO/federation integrations, protocol troubleshooting, and identity provider/service provider configuration.

Significant hands-on software engineering experience building and deploying highly scalable, high-performance cloud services, ideally in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.

Demonstrated





Staff level Java development experience and fluency with object-oriented design and modern engineering practices.

Experience designing and building microservices and REST APIs, ideally using Spring or similar frameworks. Strong technical judgment and a track record of contributing to technical designs, proof-of-concept work, and architecture discussions. Strong interpersonal communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively across a large, globally distributed engineering organization with many teams.

Proven ability to mentor engineers and improve team-wide engineering practices. Comfort working with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and modern build and delivery tooling.

Experience evaluating or building capabilities related to AI agents, agent identity, non-human identity, MCP, or adjacent integration concepts.

Experience working across multiple codebases, teams, or product areas to ship cohesive outcomes Familiarity with secure coding practices, OWASP guidance, and adjacent security technologies such as PKI, cryptography, and certificate/key management. We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. Global volunteering and community initiatives Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule Parental Leave Retirement Programs We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone’s individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity.

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. #

📌 Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform (Remote) (Vancouver)
🏢 Ping Identity
📍 Vancouver