Senior Platform Engineer - Admin Experience (Backend & AI)

Pingidentity; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 110,218 - 137,773; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule

Parental Leave

Progressive Healthcare Options

Retirement Programs

Opportunity for Education Reimburse

Commuter Offset (Specific locations)

Job summary

Ping Identity in Colorado is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the PingOne Platform Administration team, designing, building, testing, and deploying scalable services that help prospects explore PingOne quickly and transition to production use.

You will work on backend services, APIs, and AI-adjacent tooling, collaborate with product, QA, UX, and other engineers, and mentor peers while improving observability, reliability, and deployment safety.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of professional software engineering experience on Agile teams.
• Strong backend software development experience building production-grade services.
• 3+ years of experience developing Java services.
• Experience developing NodeJS services.
• 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.
• Experience developing SaaS applications.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and 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.

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.

Skills

Java

NodeJS

TypeScript

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud CI/CD

Agile teams

Technical leadership

Tools

Java services

Job description

Ping Identity in Colorado is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the PingOne Platform Administration team, designing, building, testing, and deploying scalable services that help prospects explore PingOne quickly and transition to production use.

You will work on backend services, APIs, and AI-adjacent tooling, collaborate with product, QA, UX, and other engineers, and mentor peers while improving observability, reliability, and deployment safety.