Senior Software Engineer — PingOne Platform Administration & Security

Ping Identity•Denver, CO

6d•$110,218 - $137,773

About The Position

The PingOne Platform Administration team focuses on creating seamless PingOne experiences and onboarding experiences that help prospects explore PingOne quickly and transition smoothly into production use. This role offers the opportunity to work on high-impact platform and developer experience initiatives at the intersection of identity, cloud services, and emerging AI-enabled workflows. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Agile software development team focused on evolving the PingOne Platform Administration space and supporting the development of AI-adjacent platform capabilities such as the PingOne MCP server. In this role, you will be a senior individual contributor helping design, build, test, and deploy scalable services and experiences that make it easier for prospects and customers to explore, adopt, and extend PingOne.

Requirements

5-7+ years of professional software engineering experience, operating as a senior-level individual contributor on Agile teams.
Strong backend software development experience building production-grade services.
3+ years of experience developing Java services.
Experience developing NodeJS services.
Experience developing SaaS applications.
Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and working with distributed systems.
Familiarity with cloud-native development practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production support.
Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners including product management, QA, UX, and peer engineering teams.
Strong problem-solving, communication, and technical leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with TypeScript is highly desired.
Experience in the Identity Management field is highly desired.
Experience developing tools and skills for AI models is highly desired.
Experience developing MCP servers is highly desired.
Strong service-side engineering fundamentals and ability to own features end-to-end.
Experience working in small, fast-moving Agile squads with high ownership.
Ability to balance near-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
Comfort working across backend-heavy projects while collaborating with frontend, QA, product, and platform stakeholders.
Some frontend experience, or willingness to contribute outside a narrow backend lane when needed.
Familiarity with CI/CD, test automation, and shipping safely to production.
Ability to work effectively in a highly collaborative environment with peers across PingOne platform teams.
Interest in platform capabilities, developer experience, and customer-facing admin workflows.

Responsibilities

Report to the PingOne Admin Experience engineering director.
Serve as a senior individual contributor on the PingOne Platform Administration team.
Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle, from requirements definition and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
Design and develop backend services and APIs that support the PingOne Platform Administration capabilities.
Contribute to the development of AI-related platform tooling, including MCP server capabilities, developer tools, and supporting workflows.
Partner closely with product managers, QA, UX, and peer engineering teams across PingOne to deliver high-quality solutions.
Help shape technical direction, engineering standards, and system design decisions within the team.
Mentor other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day collaboration.
Support operational excellence by improving observability, reliability, maintainability, and deployment safety of team-owned services.