Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer AI Governance

Ping Identity; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits and perks

Generous PTO

Education reimbursement

Commuter offset (specific locations)

Job summary

Ping Identity is seeking a Staff Engineer for its Data Platform team to design and implement AI governance capabilities across major platforms, ensuring secure, scalable data solutions for enterprise customers. You will prototype, integrate, and optimize data pipelines while collaborating with security, compliance, and product teams.

The role emphasizes observability, performance, and governance of AI agents and data workflows in a fast-paced environment, with a chance to influence enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering related software engineering roles with hands-on experience in data ingestion, data preparation, data processing, and building scalable data pipelines using frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam, or Apache Flink.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and designing scalable data solutions for enterprise applications.
• Extensive experience with BigQuery, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting analytical queries.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and large-scale data processing solutions.
• Familiarity with structured and unstructured data management concepts.
• Good understanding of distributed data systems and data integration patterns.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain AI agent governance capabilities across AI platforms and enterprise data ecosystems.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on data governance and analytics features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable data solutions and observability.
• Contribute to architecture, governance processes, and engineering best practices for AI-enabled data platforms.
• Partner with Support and customer-facing teams to troubleshoot issues and improve product reliability.

Skills

Data engineering

Apache Spark

Apache Beam

Apache Flink

BigQuery

SQL

NoSQL

Elasticsearch

Distributed data systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Ping Identity is seeking a Staff Engineer for its Data Platform team to design and implement AI governance capabilities across major platforms, ensuring secure, scalable data solutions for enterprise customers. You will prototype, integrate, and optimize data pipelines while collaborating with security, compliance, and product teams.

The role emphasizes observability, performance, and governance of AI agents and data workflows in a fast-paced environment, with a chance to influence enterprise