Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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. 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. 

As a Ping Identity Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will be involved in every facet of our Cloud-based services. You will establish solutions for building, deploying, and maintaining the infrastructure of one of the largest identity platforms in the world. We follow a DevOps model: Development and Operations teams are integrated, running continuous deployments daily, and the teams collaborate in the solution's development, deployment, and operations.

You Will:

• Work collaboratively and independently to design and deliver solutions as well as review and provide feedback for those delivered by other engineers for our software and services on our cloud hosted production infrastructure.
• Shape how our mission-critical enterprise software solutions are developed and deployed using optimized and automated CI/CD pipelines that ensure high quality products
• Help design, build and support infrastructure and security technologies within the cloud that offer resiliency, observability and optimized cost. 
• Communicate proactively and effectively to different kinds of audiences within the company. Share your own experience, knowledge and expertise with others to help them grow and develop.
• Participate in planning work and identify areas of improvement
• Perform technology evaluation and selection
• Participate in an on-call rotation for maintenance of the cloud solutions.

You Have:

• Experience in scalable, distributed systems architecture
• Experience with Cloud Platforms, ideally GCP
• Experience with programming using Go (Golang) 
• Experience with Kubernetes for orchestration and Docker for containerization
• Experience defining and implementing automated service deployments, including provisions for networking, security, reliability, management, reporting, and configuration management
• In-depth understanding of best practices for deployment automation
• Experience using Git in a team environment (pull requests, branching, push, and pulls)
• CS Degree or equivalent experience

You will have an advantage if:

• You have an in-depth understanding of networking, including routing, naming, security, network performance, and network failure modes
• You have an in-depth understanding of identity and access management
• You have experience with instrumentation and management of automated deployments
• You have experience resolving customer deployment issues
• You have worked with globally distributed teams
• You understand CI/CD processes, and have some experience building CI/CD pipelines

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.