Product Security Engineer - Federal

Ping Identity

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About The Position

As a Product Security Engineer working in our Federal accounts, you will gain invaluable experience at a visionary identity security company. The position requires a passion for application security, solving both technical and organizational challenges, with the ability to work in a challenging, distributed and Infrastructure-as-Code development environment, excellent communications skills, and attention to the latest security best practices. This role focuses on product security (application security) for Ping’s identity platform. Product Security Engineers partner closely with engineering teams to review code, identify vulnerabilities, and improve the security posture of production software across Ping’s revenue-generating products. We are particularly interested in engineers who developed a passion for security and transitioned into application security or DevSecOps roles. Candidates with a background in software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps who now focus on security are strongly encouraged to apply.

Requirements

Ability to meet U.S. citizenship and residency eligibility requirements associated with supporting FedRAMP-regulated environments.
2+ years of application security experience across areas such as API Security, Web Application Security, Enterprise Application Security, and Mobile Application Security
3+ years of developing commercial software products
Hands-on experience working with Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) security tooling, such as source code scanning tools (SAST) and third-party dependency or software composition analysis (SCA)
Strong understanding of modern authentication and identity standards, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SAML
Ability to review application code for security vulnerabilities, ideally in Java or Go
Experience identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities aligned with OWASP Top 10
Familiarity with cloud-native application environments, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS, and containerized platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
Understanding of networking protocols and modern data center architecture
Exceptional problem-solving skills, curiosity about the inner workings of systems, and strong attention to detail and documentation

Nice To Haves

Experience in security and compliance for FedRAMP solutions, including understanding of NIST, DoD, and related security standards
Security certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, GIAC, or OSCP
Experience with Linux environments, administration, security, internals
Experience with identity and access management (e.g. OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, Active Directory, 2FA/MFA, LDAP, SCIM, FAPI, OpenBanking)
Experience with CI/CD in Federal or US government cloud deployment (e.g., AWS GovCloud, Azure, or GCP)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
Experience in vulnerability management measurement, reporting, and remediation

Responsibilities

Own multiple Security Engineering assignments working with Ping Identity products, processes, and tooling
Assist in proposing, developing, and improving Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices alongside global, high-performance product engineering teams
Work with the product teams to perform security design/code reviews and vulnerability assessment and management in an agile environment
Perform application security tasks including threat modeling, developer code reviews, consulting, static code analysis, dynamic runtime fuzzing, building custom tools, and automation and exploit development
Assist the Federal presales, support, and customer success teams responding to prospect, customer, and field questions related to product and industry security
Engage with third-party security consultants for independent security assessments, bug bounties, and penetration testing of the product