Principal Software Engineer
Ping Identity provides an identity security platform for the digital enterprise, offering identity, access management, orchestration, and fraud prevention solutions. They serve large organizations across government, financial services, healthcare, retail, and media & telco sectors.
Maintainer signals as of 8/29/2026
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About Ping Identity
Ping Identity offers the Ping Identity Platform, an identity security solution providing capabilities for identify, manage, access, and govern needs, with support for any identity and any experience. The platform is powered by Helix, an AI engine driving intelligent identity services, and supports orchestration through a no-code, drag-and-drop interface, decentralized identity with reusable verified credentials, and fraud prevention capabilities. Ping Identity serves some of the world's largest organizations, including government agencies (e.g., State of Connecticut), financial services firms (e.g., Coast Capital), healthcare companies (e.g., Philips), retailers (e.g., Best Buy), and media & telco companies (e.g., The BBC), helping them reduce fraud, improve customer experience, and scale digital identity services across 6,500+ orchestrated capabilities and 350+ connectors.
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About the Role
You will design, build, ship, and own production systems for a cloud-native privileged access platform. You will develop Go services for just-in-time access, credential-less authentication, and Zero Trust access across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. You will build AI security capabilities including MCP gateways, agent identity and governance, and real-time protections against prompt injection and data exfiltration. You will develop highly available multi-region services on Kubernetes, integrate identity protocols, build secure proxy and gateway layers, and contribute through code reviews, design reviews, mentorship, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- 4+ years at a Principal or Staff level building large-scale security or identity products
- Experience as an individual contributor who writes and ships production code daily
- Deep knowledge of IAM and PAM including privileged access secrets and key management session brokering least privilege and Zero Trust architectures
- Hands-on expertise with OAuth2 OIDC and PKI
- Expert-level proficiency in Go or a strong systems-language background with willingness to work in Go
- Experience with AWS Azure or GCP Kubernetes and Cassandra or similar NoSQL data stores
- Experience with workflow engines such as Temporal is a plus
- Experience building or securing LLM-based systems is preferred
- Ability to drive cross-team technical decisions while staying involved in delivery
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Design and ship core Go services for privileged access
- Build MCP gateways and AI agent identity and governance capabilities
- Implement real-time guardrails against prompt injection and data exfiltration
- Develop highly available multi-region Kubernetes services
- Build distributed systems with durable workflow orchestration and distributed data stores
- Integrate OAuth2 OIDC SAML SCIM and certificate-based authentication
- Build secure proxy and gateway layers for SSH RDP Kubernetes databases and web applications
- Conduct code and design reviews
- Mentor engineers through hands-on collaboration
- Drive cross-team technical decisions and maintain secure production code
Benefits
- Generous PTO and holiday schedule
- Parental leave
- Progressive healthcare options
- Retirement programs
- Education reimbursement
- Commuter offset for specific locations