What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineer position at Ping Assistant?
Role: Senior Software Engineer — Core
Mission
Share ownership of Ping’s deterministic product layer. This includes core user interfaces, data ingestion data schema management, and general infrastructure
What you’ll do
- Lead design and implementation for new deterministic product features and foundational product functionality
- Take on systems level optimizations to support scale
- Integrate 3rd party APIs and data providers both in an internal and customer-facing capacity
- Improve observability: logs, metrics, tracing, alerting.
- Organize and improve data ingestion such that it is poised for inference/insights
- Participate in discovery/roadmapping in a high-judgement capacity
- Mentor and guide other engineers in best practices
You might be a good fit if you
- Have 3 years building and operating production systems.
- Are comfortable with TypeScript/Node, Postgres, queues, and cloud infra patterns (exact stack familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement).
- Operate well in a fast-paced high autonomy environment
- Value and exercise your communication skills in tandem with your technical skills
- Can weigh and explain tradeoffs clearly in writing and in customer-facing contexts.
Bonus Points
- Accounting domain familiarity
- Worked at an early stage fast-paced startup
Comp (cash): $120,000 - $140,000
Mission
Share ownership new and existing “AI” surface area**.** This includes agent interfaces, agent capabilities, persistence layers, LLM-powered workflows, safety/verification patterns, and the systems that make inference features reliable and predictable for customers.
What you’ll do
- Build, improve and maintain agent workflows and product features that customers can trust.
- Manage to post ingestion data pipelines which power agentic feature set
- Design verification-first patterns (tests, evaluation harnesses, observability, safeguards).
- Improve integration patterns for agent actions (permissions, retries, auditing where needed).
- Mentor the team on quality, prompt/tooling discipline, and other AI development primitives
- Contribute to core platform needs
You might be a good fit if you
- Have 3 years building product systems end-to-end.
- Have shipped AI-enabled features (ideally agents) to production.
- Strong understanding of AI/Agent primitives
- Have strong product and business sense and can demo/explain work clearly.
- Comp (cash): $130,000 - $150,000
Salary : $120,000 - $140,000