Senior Software Engineer

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

We are looking for a Senior 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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
• Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
• Progressive Healthcare Options
• Retirement Programs
• Opportunity for Education Reimbursement
• Commuter Offset (Specific locations)

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.