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 take ideas from concept to reality and work well in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional, and global team.
The ideal applicant will bring broad software development experience, strong systems thinking, 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 help define how the software industry identifies, secures, and governs 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
- 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
- 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 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, authorisation, and identity management
- Ability to communicate technical direction clearly, mentor other engineers, and coordinate work across teams and time zones
- 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
Salary Range: $151,277-$185,000
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
- Design, build, test, and operate production services using Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Use AI engineering tools (e.g., Claude Code) to accelerate research, prototyping, implementation, and documentation.
- 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/domain models.
- Ability to turn ambiguous ideas into technical direction, prototypes, and production-ready solutions.
- Experience with authentication, authorization, and identity management (IAM).
- Ability to communicate technical direction clearly, mentor other engineers, and coordinate work across teams and time zones.
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token exchange, policy systems, delegated administration, or identity data modeling.
- Experience with AI agent identity, non-human identity, MCP, and agent integration concepts.
- Experience working across multiple codebases, teams, or product areas and shipping cohesive outcomes; distributed systems at scale.
- Experience writing technical designs, PoCs, and decision-support material for leadership and partner teams.
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 offerings are described as generous, including unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) and broad time-off coverage that supports flexibility. Additional time-off elements like holidays and volunteer time are also cited as part of the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is characterized as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision plans, with added support such as mental health resources and disability/life insurance. Fertility and family-related health benefits are also referenced as notable components.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are portrayed as a meaningful part of total rewards, with 401(k) plans and employer matching described as a standout feature. Stock-based compensation is also referenced as part of financial rewards for eligible roles.
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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