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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 14 days Ping Identity's roles stay open a median of 35 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 60% of Ping Identity's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Ping Identity
- moderate 27 stale, 0 reposted of 78 open
- Hiring momentum
- 115 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Ping Identity's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Ping Identity.
About this role
The Senior Performance Engineer at Ping Identity will independently plan and execute performance engineering activities for large-scale identity services in cloud-native environments. This role involves defining performance testing strategies, analyzing results, troubleshooting performance issues, and collaborating with various teams to enhance system performance and reliability. The engineer will also mentor others and contribute to performance-test automation and documentation.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Ping Identity as an employer.
What you need
- Proven experience developing and executing load, scalability, endurance, stress, reliability, regression, baseline, and benchmark tests.
- Experience planning and executing performance testing from a holistic system perspective with minimal supervision.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot, isolate, and perform root-cause analysis on end-to-end performance and reliability issues.
- Strong experience with modern load-generation, measurement, observability, monitoring, and profiling tools.
- Ability to write performance tests and automation in Python, Java, Scala, Go, or a comparable scripting or programming language.
- Experience performance-testing LDAP, Java, web, and distributed applications in regional, cloud, or hybrid deployments.
Nice to have
- Experience with Gatling, JMeter, or comparable performance-testing tools.
- Experience with Java performance profiling and optimization in production-like environments.
- Kubernetes and GKE or AWS experience, including application resource measurement and sizing.
- Experience improving performance testing through AI-assisted analysis, automation, or test design.
- Experience producing performance troubleshooting, tuning, or capacity-planning documentation for broad internal or external use.
What you get
- Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
- Parental Leave
- Progressive Healthcare Options
- Retirement Programs
- Opportunity for Education Reimbursement
- Commuter Offset (Specific locations)
Worth weighing
- No salary listed.
- Role involves significant independent work and accountability.
- Focus on performance engineering may limit exposure to other areas of software development.
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Listed by Ping Identity on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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