Senior Staff Software Engineer

About Ping Identity

Ping Identity believes in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want, without friction and without fear. Protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture, and we champion every identity.

Platform Engineering Team

The Platform Engineering team delivers features and design work that spans the Ping platform. They focus on building Ping's identity for AI offerings to secure and govern AI agents.

What You'll Deliver

• IAM (Identity & Access Management) capabilities across the Ping platform encompassing the whole stack from infrastructure and databases through to UI experiences
• Define and evolve common APIs, models, workflows, orchestration surfaces, and services that enable platform-level capabilities
• Research, prototype, and deliver features in emerging areas such as Identity for AI and AI-first platform experiences
• Work closely with product management, UX, and engineering teams across Ping to refine features and designs to deliver elegant, usable, and scalable outcomes for customers
• Participate in development life cycle activities such as design, coding, testing, rollout, and production support
• Use modern AI tooling such as Claude Code as part of day-to-day engineering work to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation, and documentation while maintaining strong engineering judgment
• Show strong communication skills, provide effective mentorship, and set a strong example for other engineers
• Thrive in a rapidly changing environment, continuously adapting to evolving customer needs, technology trends, and new ways of working

Requirements

• Ability to design, build, test, and operate production services using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Experience building distributed systems, platform capabilities, internal developer platforms, or shared product infrastructure
• Strong experience designing APIs, RESTful services, service boundaries, integration contracts, and data or domain models
• Experience turning ambiguous ideas into technical direction, prototypes, and production-ready solutions
• Experience with authentication, authorization, and identity management
• Ability to communicate technical direction clearly, mentor other engineers, and coordinate work across teams and time zones

Bonus Points

• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token exchange, policy systems, delegated administration, or identity data modelling
• Experience with AI agent identity and non-human identity
• Familiarity with MCP, agent skills, and other agent integration concepts
• Experience working across multiple codebases, teams, or product areas to ship cohesive outcomes
• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience working as part of an international team
• Experience balancing short-term product delivery with longer-term platform architecture
• Experience writing technical designs, PoCs, and decision-support material for leadership and partner teams

What You Bring

• Broad software development experience
• Strong systems thinking
• Creative problem-solving skills
• A passion for research, innovation, and experimentation
• Able to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional, and global team

Salary Range

$151,277-$185,000