Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ping Identity
USA - Austin, TX
$151,277–$185,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
USA - Austin, TX
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building identity and access management capabilities for AI agents across a broad platform stack — from infrastructure and databases through to UI. Day-to-day work spans designing APIs, data models, and shared services, as well as researching and prototyping emerging identity concepts. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable with distributed systems, IAM standards, and cross-functional collaboration across global teams.
Staff level · Remote · Full-time
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,250–3,150
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 (7)
The job title is 'Senior Staff Software Engineer' — a compound level. The advertised seniority is treated as Staff (the higher explicit band in the title), and the actual scope (cross-team platform direction, org-wide technical leadership, defining platform architecture) genuinely supports Staff.
The compensation range ($151,277–$185,000/year) is disclosed specifically under Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; actual compensation for other locations may differ.
No specific location or metro is stated — the role appears to be remote-eligible (global, cross-timezone team). No CBSA is set.
Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes appear in the 'You Have' (requirements) section with the qualifier 'such as', which signals interchangeability of specific tools but still gates on the underlying capability; they are marked required accordingly.
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token exchange, policy systems, MCP, agent skills, and AI agent identity experience all appear under 'Bonus Points If You Have' and are marked preferred.
Claude Code is mentioned in the requirements section as an example of 'modern AI tooling' but is framed illustratively ('such as Claude Code'), so it is captured as preferred rather than a hard gate on that specific product.
No minimum total years of experience is explicitly stated in the posting.
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