Senior Software Engineer PingOne Platform Administration and Security
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.
Funding
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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.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable backend services and APIs for PingOne Platform Administration. You will contribute to AI-related platform tooling, including MCP server capabilities and developer tools, collaborate with product, QA, UX, and engineering partners, and improve service reliability, observability, maintainability, and deployment safety. You will also help guide technical decisions and mentor engineers through reviews and day-to-day collaboration.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of professional software engineering experience as a senior-level individual contributor on Agile teams
- Backend software development experience building production-grade services
- 3+ years of Java service development experience
- NodeJS service development experience
- Experience developing SaaS applications
- Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and working with distributed systems
- Familiarity with cloud-native development practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production support
- Ability to collaborate with product management, QA, UX, and engineering teams
- Problem-solving, communication, and technical leadership skills
Responsibilities
- Report to the PingOne Admin Experience engineering director
- Serve as a senior individual contributor on the PingOne Platform Administration team
- Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle
- Design and develop backend services and APIs for PingOne Platform Administration
- Contribute to AI-related platform tooling, including MCP server capabilities and developer tools
- Partner with product managers, QA, UX, and engineering teams to deliver solutions
- Shape technical direction, engineering standards, and system design decisions
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and collaboration
- Improve observability, reliability, maintainability, and deployment safety of team-owned services
Benefits
- Generous PTO and holiday schedule
- Parental leave
- Healthcare options
- Retirement programs
- Education reimbursement
- Commuter offset for specific locations
- Employee Resource Groups
- Company and team bonding events
- Volunteering and community initiatives
