Senior Cloud Security Researcher

Ping Identity Corporation is an active enterprise identity-security company offering the Ping Identity Platform for customer, B2B, workforce, and AI-agent identity use cases.

Denver, Colorado, USA
About Ping Identity Corporation

Ping Identity develops and operates identity and access management and identity-security products, including identity verification, identity management, authentication, authorization, threat protection, fraud prevention, and orchestration. Its offerings support multi-tenant SaaS, dedicated-tenant SaaS, self-managed software, and FedRAMP High deployments.

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About the Role

You will help establish a new threat-research team’s culture, tooling pipeline, and research agenda. You will conduct hands-on threat hunting and data-driven cloud-security research, while contributing thought-leadership publications for security professionals.

Requirements

  • 5 years of hands-on security research experience.
  • At least 2 years focused on cloud security research.
  • Experience programming and scripting with JavaScript, Java, or Python.
  • In-depth understanding of web architecture, including the OSI model, REST APIs, microservices, DNS, and TLS.
  • Fluent verbal and written English communication.
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to operate independently.

Responsibilities

  • Help build the threat-research team culture, tooling pipeline, and research agenda.
  • Conduct hands-on threat hunting.
  • Perform data-driven security research.
  • Publish thought-leadership research for security professionals.

Benefits

  • Generous PTO and holiday schedule
  • Parental leave
  • Progressive healthcare options
  • Retirement programs
  • Education reimbursement
  • Commuter offset at specific locations