Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering – Identity & AI Agent Governance

Ping Identity; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 132,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible work options

Education reimbursement

Generous PTO & Holidays

Job summary

Ping Identity's Data Platform team is building the next generation of enterprise AI governance capabilities to enable secure, scalable, and responsible AI agent adoption across platforms. As a Staff Engineer, you will help shape governance concepts from design to reality in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

You will partner with engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to craft secure AI solutions, implement governance workflows, and drive observability and reliability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.
• 8+ years of data engineering related software engineering experience with data ingestion, processing, and scalable pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and scalable data solutions.
• Experience with BigQuery, SQL, NoSQL, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting analytical queries.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and large-scale data processing.
• 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 across platforms like Bedrock, Vertex AI, Copilot, Azure AI Foundry.
• Prototype and iterate AI agent capabilities, adopting new frameworks and best practices.
• Leverage AI coding assistants and tooling to accelerate delivery with clear requirements and maintainable design.
• Evolve Identity Governance capabilities including certifications, lifecycle management, workflows, and SoD.
• Collaborate with Support and customer teams to troubleshoot and improve reliability.
• Monitor AI agent performance, usage, health, and security across platforms.
• Implement secure AI solutions with authentication, authorization, and least-privilege principles.
• Contribute to observability with logging, metrics, monitoring, and compliance for AI agents.
• Evaluate emerging AI agent platforms and interoperability standards.
• Document architecture, governance processes, and engineering best practices.

Skills

Data ingestion

Data processing

Distributed systems

SQL

BigQuery

Elasticsearch

ETL pipelines

Apache Spark

Apache Beam

Apache Flink

NoSQL databases

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Beam

Apache Flink

BigQuery

SQL

Elasticsearch

NoSQL databases

ETL pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

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.

The Ping Identity Data Platform team is building the next generation of enterprise AI governance capabilities to enable secure, scalable, and responsible adoption of AI agents. The team is evolving governance frameworks, platforms, and operational processes to manage AI agents across the enterprise, addressing key areas such as security, compliance, identity, risk management, and responsible AI.

As a Staff Engineer our Data Platform team, you will help define and implement capabilities for agent discovery, lifecycle governance, policy enforcement, observability, and secure integration of AI agents, tools, MCP servers, and enterprise resources. You will work on taking governance concepts from design to reality in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional environment, partnering with engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to shape the future of AI adoption.

You Will:

• 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.
• Partner closely 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.

You Have:

• 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.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Exposure to Identity Governance (IGA) concepts.
• Experience building MCP servers and AI agents using popular frameworks such as LangGraph and LlamaIndex.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

Compensation Range: $132,000–$170,000

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.