Senior Staff Platform Engineer - IAM & AI

Ping Identity; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 151,277 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture empowerment

Employee groups

Team events

Benefits package

Volunteering

Job summary

Ping Identity in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join Platform Engineering. You will drive IAM capabilities across the Ping platform, from infrastructure to UI, shaping APIs, models, and services for AI-enabled experiences.

You will collaborate with product, UX, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure identities and platform features, guide design, prototyping, and production support, and mentor other engineers in a fast-paced global environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to use AI engineering tools to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation, and documentation while applying sound engineering judgment.
• Experience building distributed systems, platform capabilities, internal developer platforms, or shared product infrastructure.
• Strong experience designing APIs, RESTful services, service boundaries, integration contracts, and data or domain models.
• Experience turning ambiguous ideas into technical direction, prototypes, and production‑ready solutions.
• Experience with authentication, authorisation, and identity management.
• Ability to communicate technical direction clearly, mentor other engineers, and coordinate work across teams and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Deliver IAM (Identity & Access Management) capabilities across the Ping platform encompassing the whole stack from infrastructure and databases through to UI experiences
• Define and evolve common APIs, models, workflows, orchestration surfaces, and services that enable platform‑level capabilities
• Research, prototype, and deliver features in emerging areas such as Identity for AI and AI‑first platform experiences
• 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
• Show strong communication skills, provide effective mentorship, and set a strong example for other engineers
• Thrive in a rapidly changing environment, continuously adapting to evolving customer needs, technology trends, and new ways of working

Skills

AI tooling acceleration

Distributed systems

API design

Ambiguity to direction

Identity management

Cross-team communication

Job description

Ping Identity in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join Platform Engineering. You will drive IAM capabilities across the Ping platform, from infrastructure to UI, shaping APIs, models, and services for AI-enabled experiences.

You will collaborate with product, UX, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure identities and platform features, guide design, prototyping, and production support, and mentor other engineers in a fast-paced global environment.