Senior Staff Java Engineer — AI Governance & Scale

Pingidentity; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 151,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule

Parental Leave

Progressive Healthcare Options

Retirement Programs

Education Reimbursement

Commuter Offset (Specific locations)

Job summary

Ping Identity in Austin, TX seeks an experienced Java software professional to lead AI agent governance initiatives within a scalable enterprise data platform. You will design and implement governance capabilities across major AI platforms, ensuring security, observability, and high performance in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes building robust identity governance features, collaborating with security and product teams, and driving the deployment of secure AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Java application development.
• Strong proficiency in Java and object-oriented design principles.
• Experience building scalable, distributed, and resilient applications.
• Strong experience with Gradle for dependency management, build automation, project configuration, and optimizing build processes while troubleshooting dependency conflicts and build-related issues in large-scale software projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain AI agent governance capabilities across AI platforms like Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI Foundry etc.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on AI agent capabilities, continuously evaluating and adopting new frameworks, features, and industry best practices as the AI ecosystem evolves.
• Leverage AI coding assistants and agentic development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining a strong focus on clear requirements, modular design, observability, maintainability, and code quality.
• Drive the evolution of core Identity Governance capabilities— including certifications, lifecycle management, workflows, and Separation of Duties (SoD)—by enhancing existing functionality, improving performance and scalability, and delivering incremental features that strengthen enterprise identity governance.
• Collaborate with Support and customer-facing teams to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues, drive timely solutions, improve product reliability, and deliver a positive customer experience that builds trust and customer delight.
• Monitor AI agent performance, usage, operational health, and security across multiple platforms.
• Collaborate with platform, security, and product teams to implement secure AI solutions using authentication, authorization, and least-privilege principles.
• Contribute to observability by implementing logging, metrics, monitoring, and compliance for AI agents.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI agent platforms, interoperability standards (such as MCP and Agent-to-Agent communication), and governance technologies.
• Document architecture, governance processes, operational procedures, and engineering best practices for AI agents.

Job description

Ping Identity in Austin, TX seeks an experienced Java software professional to lead AI agent governance initiatives within a scalable enterprise data platform. You will design and implement governance capabilities across major AI platforms, ensuring security, observability, and high performance in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes building robust identity governance features, collaborating with security and product teams, and driving the deployment of secure AI