Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform & IAM

Ping Identity; United Kingdom; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Education reimbursement

Commuter offset

Retirement programs

Global volunteering

Employee resource groups

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Job summary

Ping Identity's Platform Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to turn ideas into production IAM capabilities across the Ping platform, spanning infrastructure, databases, and UI.

You will collaborate across product, UX, and engineering, prototype AI-enabled solutions, and ship APIs, models, and services that help identify, secure, and govern AI agents.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Deliver IAM capabilities across the Ping platform from infrastructure to UI
• Design and implement APIs, models, workflows, and services
• Research and prototype solutions with senior leaders to turn ideas into features
• Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering to refine features for scalability
• Participate in design, coding, testing, rollout, and production support
• Use AI tooling to accelerate research and coding while maintaining engineering judgment
• Communicate decisions clearly and share knowledge across the team

Skills

AI tooling

Distributed systems

API design

Authentication

Identity management

Cross-team collaboration

RESTful services

Prototyping

Job description

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.

You will be an active member of an innovative and passionate team developing features and key extensions to a growing enterprise product platform for the market leader in Identity Security. There is a wide variety of work including API development, identity protocol implementation, authentication systems, security vulnerability mitigation, identity management and provisioning, and performance optimizations at a large scale.

We seek a Sr. Software Engineer who will be active in developing features and capabilities within our Identity Management product suite. We require a passionate developer who flourishes in a fast-moving, agile environment, has good communications skills, an outstanding ability to translate requirements and designs to functional Java code using agentic modeling, and strong attention to security, quality, testability and performance.

You will:

• Design and develop large-scale, single- and multi-tenant, robust, cutting-edge Java-based identity management products
• Collaborate effectively with the distributed team, with team members in the Portland, OR metro area, Canada, and Europe
• Analyze and elaborate on requirements with product management and architects to improve the identity platform and develop new features for PingIDM
• Plan, estimate, and manage development tasks independently and efficiently per business plans
• Work closely with customer-facing support teams to resolve customer issues

You have:

• Wide experience designing and developing large scale applications in the Java programming language
• A strong understanding of HTTP and RESTful web services
• Strong interpersonal communications skills
• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Familiar with cloud architectures and deployment strategies (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience using AI agents such as claude code to plan, validate, and implement functionality
• The ability to learn quickly and independently, and are capable of gathering information and understanding complex features and environments

You have an advantage if you have:

• Experience with identity management technologies and protocols (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, certificate & key management, cryptography, etc.)I
• Understanding of enterprise-scale systems and configurations related to security
• Experience building performant systems that deploy and execute at scale

Salary Range: $110,000 - $137,000

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
• Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
• 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.

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