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.
Role Purpose Statement: As a Senior Support Engineer, you will be working in a customer-facing capacity dedicated to our top tier customers, helping to ensure they have a seamless experience using our products and navigating any issues that arise. Additionally, you will help with the resolution of any problems, working cross-functionally internally to quickly come up with the most efficient solution to ensure customers have a continuous operation of our products.
Main Responsibilities:
- Interacting with customers, responding in a professional and efficient manner, helping them identify and resolve technical issues.
- Meeting or exceed customer expectations on response quality, timeliness and overall customer experience
- Taking end-to-end ownership of assigned customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution. Showing dedication, patience and commitment to seeing problems through to resolution. Ability to think logically and creatively, with a detail-oriented working style, such that all angles of troubleshooting/resolution are covered and captured
- Communicating with customers and partners through the online support tool, and via audio (top tier customers may call in directly) and video calls and screen-sharing sessions which will occur regularly
- Collaborating with Support, Engineering, SREs, Product Management and Customer Success teams. Showing a respect for all team members and customers at all times
- Reproducing customer problems internally, to enable the development and testing of a resolution
- Collecting information and documenting bugs with Engineering for the product/service issues that are impacting customers
- Providing feedback to the training and documentation teams so that common or emerging issues can be addressed before they become serious or widespread
- Ensuring best practices are followed and processes are adhered to, especially with
- regard to ISO27001/9001 compliance, security incidents and data breaches
- Actively prioritizing tasks/workload with self-discipline and good timekeeping
- Adopting an 'always-learning' mentality, with a humble attitude about knowledge limitations, and the ability to learn from experience and informal/formal instruction. Showing a willingness to share knowledge with team members and customers
- Participating in the weekend queue manager/on-call rosters and scheduled public holiday coverage
- Clearly communicating with all stakeholders - customers, team members, other departments, management
- Leading escalation calls, when required, to brief stakeholder management on support cases, and assist in the creation of action plans aiming to solve customer issues as quickly as possible. Showing empathy for the customer's situation and listening with the intent to understand the situation clearly
- Frequently mentoring other team members, helping with complex tickets, promoting best practices around customer service and troubleshooting, creating and reviewing knowledge base articles
- Developing a subject matter expertise in the product/service, whilst building a wide breadth of understanding of platform-wide interconnections
- Using your creative thinking, business and technical analysis skills to go beyond the existing industry standard practices, to adjust existing and create new process improvements to delight our customers. Showing a demonstrated independent interest in advanced technologies
- Leading by example with an excellent work ethic and a positive mentality to steer the team through difficult issues whilst following best practices
- Contributing to technical screening, interviewing and final selection of new team members
- Increasing contributions to the product/service and wider global team
- Being the first point of call for Urgent tickets and customer issues
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Technical Degree plans preferred - Computer Engineering, CIS, MIS, CS
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent experience
- Excellent Communication: verbal, written, listening, present confidently, know audience
- Excellent Troubleshooting: analytical, creative thinking, inquisitive, resilient, adaptive
- Solid knowledge: REST API, SSL/TLS, IPv4, JSON, LDAP, Proxies
- Experienced working with Linux (administration & troubleshooting), Virtualization (enterprise environment), Cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Strong collaboration and teamwork skills.
Preferred:
- Support experience with IAM(Identity Access Management) software
- Preferred work location: US West Coast
Salary Range: $70,000 - $87,000
In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (SB 19-085) the approximate compensation range for this role in Colorado is listed above. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors, such as knowledge, skills, and abilities.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of related experience, or equivalent experience
- Excellent verbal, written, listening, and presentation communication skills
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical thinking, creative problem-solving, inquisitiveness, resilience, and adaptability
- Solid knowledge of REST APIs, SSL/TLS, IPv4, JSON, LDAP, and proxies
- Experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting
- Experience with virtualization in enterprise environments
- Experience with cloud-based platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Strong collaboration and teamwork skills
- Technical degree in Computer Engineering, CIS, MIS, or Computer Science
- Support experience with Identity and Access Management software
- Preferred work location on the US West Coast
Ping Identity Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ping Identity and has not been reviewed or approved by Ping Identity.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is considered generous, with an unlimited PTO policy highlighted in company communications and reflected in practice across roles. Several sources also reference positive norms around taking vacation rather than a policy in name only.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is broad, including medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA options, life and disability insurance, mental‑health support, and an EAP. Wellness extras like a monthly fitness reimbursement further strengthen the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is framed as generous for U.S. employees, with extended paid time for birth parents commonly referenced. ERGs such as Working Families and other groups reinforce a family‑supportive environment.
Ping Identity Insights
What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
Identians are what make Ping an extraordinary place to work. They create our award-winning products and they’re the reason for our unique customer following.
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