Senior Staff Software Engineer

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