Senior Performance Engineer
Ping Identity4 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Define and execute performance testing strategies for Identity Management products and services.
- Plan and run holistic load, scalability, endurance, stress, reliability, regression, baseline, and benchmark tests.
- Analyze performance metrics and results, identify trends and trade-offs, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Troubleshoot, isolate, and perform root-cause analysis on end-to-end performance and reliability issues.
- Coordinate fixes with engineering teams and verify that performance risks are resolved through completion.
- Perform Java application profiling, stack tuning, memory analysis, and optimization.
- Determine performance configurations, capacity plans, and resource sizing across virtualized and containerized environments.
- Improve performance-test automation and contribute to continuous-integration workflows.
- Maintain documentation for performance testing, tuning, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and results.
- Own performance responsibilities across design, development, testing, deployment, release, and operations.
- Participate in customer engagements, technical escalations, onboarding, and customer-like performance investigations.
- Provide technical leadership on small initiatives, mentor engineers, and improve team processes.
Requirements
- Proven experience developing and executing comprehensive performance tests, including load, scalability, endurance, stress, reliability, regression, baseline, and benchmark testing.
- Experience planning and executing holistic system performance testing independently with minimal supervision.
- Strong troubleshooting, isolation, and root-cause analysis abilities for end-to-end performance and reliability issues.
- Experience with load-generation, measurement, observability, monitoring, and profiling tools.
- Ability to write performance tests and automation in Python, Java, Scala, Go, or a comparable language.
- Experience performance-testing LDAP, Java, web, and distributed applications in regional, cloud, or hybrid deployments.
- Experience with load balancing, network behavior, environment troubleshooting, and configuration analysis.
- Experience with Java stack tuning, profiling, debugging, optimization, JVM internals, garbage collection, and memory management.
- Understanding of software engineering practices, design patterns, automation, maintainable test development, TCP/IP, HTTP(S), SSL/TLS, and distributed-service protocols.
- Experience running large-scale performance tests in cloud environments, especially Kubernetes.
- Cloud development and automation experience using virtual machines, containers, and infrastructure or deployment automation.
- At least 5 years of software development experience, including substantial Java experience.
- At least 5 years of performance engineering or closely related experience.
- Experience with identity and access management standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and WebAuthn.
- Demonstrated collaboration, mentoring, technical leadership, independent ownership, and clear communication skills.
- Preferred experience with Gatling, JMeter, Kubernetes, GKE, AWS, production-like Java profiling and optimization, AI-assisted performance testing, and broad troubleshooting or capacity-planning documentation.
Benefits
- Flexible and collaborative work environment.
- Employee Resource Groups, regular company and team bonding events, and global volunteering initiatives.
- Competitive benefits and perks.
- Generous PTO and holiday schedule.
- Parental leave and progressive healthcare options.
- Retirement programs and education reimbursement.
- Commuter offset for specific locations.
About Ping Identity
At Ping Identity, we make it possible to trust every digital moment across customers, employees, partners, and non-human identities. Whether you're securing millions of users, fighting fraud, simplifying third-party access, or going passwordless, establishing trust shouldn’t slow you down. Our enterprise-grade identity platform is built for scale, speed, and flexibility and works seamlessly with your existing cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. We help you confidently embrace AI and automation with Runtime Identity, so you can continuously verify the identity, context, and intent of every AI agent and control their actions in real time. With Ping, all digital experiences start with trust. Learn more at pingidentity.com.