Senior Staff Software Engineer

Ping Identity•Austin, TX

2d•$151,277 - $185,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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