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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Ability to design, build, test, and operate production services using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Experience building production services, distributed systems, or shared platform capabilities
  • Experience designing and implementing APIs, RESTful services, integration contracts, and data or domain models
  • Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate across teams and time zones, and support other engineers through feedback and knowledge sharing

Responsibilities

  • Deliver IAM (Identity Access Management) capabilities across the Ping platform encompassing the whole stack from infrastructure and databases through to UI experiences
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of APIs, models, workflows, orchestration surfaces, and services
  • Research and prototype solutions in emerging areas, working with senior technical leaders and product teams to turn validated ideas into product features
  • 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

About the company

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Ping Identity

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. That’s digital freedom. We let enterprises combine our best-in-class identity solutions with third-party services they already use to remove passwords, prevent fraud, support Zero Trust, or anything in between. This can be accomplished through a simple drag-and-drop canvas. That’s why more than half of the Fortune 100 choose Ping Identity to protect digital interactions from their users while making experiences frictionless. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Ping Identity also has offices across the world including Austin, Bangalore, Boston, Edinburgh, Israel, London, Melbourne, Paris, and Vancouver.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryIdentity & Access Management (IAM)
Company size1001 - 5000

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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. 

This role sits in our Platform Engineering team, which delivers features and design work that spans the Ping platform. The team is focused on building Ping's identity for AI offerings to secure and govern AI agents.

We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer who can turn ideas into production capabilities and work well in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional, and global team.

The ideal applicant will bring strong software development experience, sound technical judgment, creative problem-solving skills, and a passion for research, innovation, and experimentation. They will be excited by work that spans products, services, APIs, models, and user experiences, and by using AI tooling as a practical part of the engineering workflow to accelerate discovery and delivery.

This is an opportunity to contribute to features that help customers identify, secure, and govern AI agents.

You Will

  • Deliver IAM (Identity & Access Management) capabilities across the Ping platform encompassing the whole stack from infrastructure and databases through to UI experiences
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of APIs, models, workflows, orchestration surfaces, and services
  • Research and prototype solutions in emerging areas, working with senior technical leaders and product teams to turn validated ideas into product features
  • 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
  • Communicate clearly, share knowledge, and support other engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and delivery
  • Thrive in a rapidly changing environment, continuously adapting to evolving customer needs, technology trends, and new ways of working

You Have

  • Ability to design, build, test, and operate production services using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes, together with the desire to broaden your expertise
  • Ability to use AI engineering tools to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation, and documentation while applying sound engineering judgment
  • Experience building production services, distributed systems, or shared platform capabilities
  • Experience designing and implementing APIs, RESTful services, integration contracts, and data or domain models
  • Experience turning requirements and ambiguous problems into designs, prototypes, and production-ready solutions
  • Experience with authentication, authorisation, and identity management
  • Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate across teams and time zones, and support other engineers through feedback and knowledge sharing

Bonus Points If You Have

  • 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 contributing to technical designs and proof of concept work

 

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.

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