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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Ping Identity'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Ping Identity

- **Company:** Ping Identity
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pingidentity/jobs/8749880002

## Job description

About Ping Identity:

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.](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/championing-every-identity.html) 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.

This role sits in our Platform Engineering team, which delivers features and design work that spans the Ping platform. The team is focused on building Ping's identity for AI offerings to secure and govern AI agents.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can turn ideas into production capabilities and work well in a fast-paced, collaborative, cross-functional, and global team.

The ideal applicant will bring strong software development experience, sound technical judgment, creative problem-solving skills, and a passion for research, innovation, and experimentation. They will be excited by work that spans products, services, APIs, models, and user experiences, and by using AI tooling as a practical part of the engineering workflow to accelerate discovery and delivery.

This is an opportunity to contribute to features that help customers identify, secure, and govern AI agents.

You Will

- Deliver IAM (Identity & Access Management) capabilities across the Ping platform encompassing the whole stack from infrastructure and databases through to UI experiences
- Contribute to the design and implementation of APIs, models, workflows, orchestration surfaces, and services
- Research and prototype solutions in emerging areas, working with senior technical leaders and product teams to turn validated ideas into product features
- 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
- Communicate clearly, share knowledge, and support other engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and delivery
- Thrive in a rapidly changing environment, continuously adapting to evolving customer needs, technology trends, and new ways of working

You Have

- Ability to design, build, test, and operate production services using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes, together with the desire to broaden your expertise
- Ability to use AI engineering tools to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation, and documentation while applying sound engineering judgment
- Experience building production services, distributed systems, or shared platform capabilities
- Experience designing and implementing APIs, RESTful services, integration contracts, and data or domain models
- Experience turning requirements and ambiguous problems into designs, prototypes, and production-ready solutions
- Experience with authentication, authorisation, and identity management
- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate across teams and time zones, and support other engineers through feedback and knowledge sharing

Bonus Points If You Have

- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token exchange, policy systems, delegated administration, or identity data modelling
- Experience with AI agent identity and non-human identity
- Familiarity with MCP, agent skills, and other agent integration concepts
- Experience working across multiple codebases, teams, or product areas to ship cohesive outcomes
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience working as part of an international team
- Experience contributing to technical designs and proof of concept work

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

Our Benefits:

- Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
- Parental Leave
- 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.

## About Ping Identity

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ping Identity provides identity security for the digital enterprise, enabling secure, frictionless access for users across any application or device.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Thoma Bravo in October 2022, formerly public NYSE: PING)
- **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, United States
- **Founded**: 2002
- **Founders**: Andre Durand, Bryan Field-Elliot

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cybersecurity
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises, B2B (over half of the Fortune 100 are customers)
- **Mission statement**: “Champion your unique identity needs” – enabling secure, convenient digital experiences for users while protecting organizations from threats.

## Products & Services
- **PingOne Cloud Platform**: Unified cloud-based identity platform with AI-powered intelligence (Helix AI) for authentication, authorization, and directory services.
- **PingFederate**: Federation server for single sign-on (SSO) and identity brokering across on-premises and cloud apps.
- **PingID**: Multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution for adaptive access.
- **PingAccess**: Reverse proxy for secure access management to web applications and APIs.
- **PingDirectory**: Enterprise directory server for identity storage and management.
- **PingAuthorize**: Dynamic policy-based access control for fine-grained authorization.
- **PingIntelligence**: AI-powered cyber threat detection and response for identity attacks.
- **PingOne for Customers**: Customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform.
- **PingOne for Workforce**: Workforce identity management with SSO, MFA, and lifecycle management.
- **Orchestration**: No-code drag-and-drop identity journey builder (6,500+ orchestrated capabilities, 350+ connectors).
- **Decentralized Identity**: Reusable verified credentials based on open standards.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed post-acquisition (prior to acquisition in 2022, market cap was ~$2.4B)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $299.4M (latest available data) — over 3 billion identities under management
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Owned by Thoma Bravo (private equity); partners include major cloud providers, system integrators, and technology vendors
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 14% YoY to 1,742 employees; recognized as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management (2025), Forrester Wave for CIAM (2024), and KuppingerCole Leadership; 99.99% uptime SLA; serves over half of the Fortune 100

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reliability**: Proven 99.99% uptime and 3 billion identities under management – built for the largest enterprises.
- **AI‑First Innovation**: Helix AI engine embedded across the platform for smarter threat detection, fraud prevention, and adaptive access.
- **Industry Recognition**: Consistently ranked as a Leader by Gartner, Forrester, and KuppingerCole for IAM, CIAM, and identity fabrics.
- **Open Standards & Interoperability**: Deep support for SAML, OAuth, OIDC, SCIM, and 350+ pre-built connectors, making it easy to integrate into existing ecosystems.
- **Flexible Deployment**: Cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud options.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑Driven Identity Security**: Deepening AI/ML capabilities (Helix) to combat fraud and automate identity decisions.
- **Expanding the Platform**: Growing the PingOne cloud platform with orchestration, decentralized identity, and zero‑trust delivery.
- **Customer Experience**: Simplifying complex identity journeys for both workforce and customer use cases through no‑code orchestration.
- **Global Reach**: Maintaining offices in 32 countries across North America, Europe, Asia‑Pacific, and the Middle East to serve enterprise customers 24/7.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Inclusion**: Strong emphasis on “Inclusion & Belonging” with seven Employee Resource Groups (Women of Ping, Ping Proud LGBTQ+, Working Families, Racial & Ethnic Diversity, Accessibility, Young Professionals, Ping Community Cares).
- **Global Flexibility**: “Here, There, Everywhere” approach – offices in Denver, Austin, Boston, Vancouver, Bristol, Edinburgh, Grenoble, London, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Melbourne, and more; open to hiring exceptional talent from around the world.
- **Benefits**: Competitive benefits vary by location; perks include opportunities for growth, volunteer programs (Hour of Code, Bikes for Kids, campus cleanups), and a focus on work‑life balance.
- **Engineering Culture**: Identians are encouraged to be “brave, passionate, and make a contribution” – a collaborative environment where everyone has a part to play.
- **Impact**: Work on identity security for the world’s largest organizations, including over half of the Fortune 100.

## Sources
1. [Ping Identity About Us](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/about-us.html)
2. [Ping Identity Homepage](https://www.pingidentity.com/en.html)
3. [Ping Identity Careers](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/careers.html)
4. [Ping Identity Open Positions](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/company/careers/careers-listings.html)
5. [Ping Identity LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ping-identity)

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