Senior Software Engineer - Identity for AI Platform Engineering at Ping Identity
USA - Austin, TX
$110,000–$120,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
USA - Austin, TX
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role on a platform team building identity and access management capabilities for AI agents. Day-to-day work spans the full stack — from infrastructure and databases to APIs, workflows, and UI — with responsibilities including prototyping emerging solutions, designing services, and shipping production features. Suits engineers with distributed systems and IAM experience who are comfortable working across cross-functional, globally distributed teams.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,700–9,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The salary range ($110,000–$120,000/year) is disclosed specifically for Colorado under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; actual compensation may differ in other locations.
Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes are listed in the 'You Have' requirements section with the phrasing 'technologies such as' — the qualifier signals these are illustrative examples of the expected stack rather than a strict closed list, but they are the only named technologies in a hard-requirements context and are treated as required.
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token exchange, policy systems, MCP, agent skills, and AI agent identity experience all appear under the 'Bonus Points If You Have' section and are marked preferred accordingly.
Claude Code is mentioned in the requirements section as an example of modern AI tooling used day-to-day, but the underlying requirement is the ability to use AI engineering tools generally; it is marked preferred as no specific tool is strictly gated.
The role is on a Platform Engineering team building identity/IAM capabilities for AI agents; experience with non-human identity and AI agent concepts is a notable differentiator listed as a bonus.
No explicit total years of experience requirement is stated in the posting.
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