Agentic Identity Engineer - Build Secure Access Platforms

Accenture; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and ship services in the agentic identity stack, owning components end to end and reverse‑engineering identity behaviors in client environments. You will prototype against evolving standards, build internal tooling, and explain designs to client engineers.

This hands‑on role requires 3+ years shipping production software, 2+ years in at least one modern language, and cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP with containers and

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Hands‑on technical work within the last 18 months, counting production development, prototyping, or code review
• Minimum of 2 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C++
• Minimum of 2 years building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production
• Minimum of 2 years of hands‑on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Responsibilities

• Build and ship services in the identity stack: authorization engines, agent registries, credential brokers, and authentication layers for MCP servers
• Own a component end to end: design, implementation, deployment, and what happens when it fails at 3am
• Reverse‑engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists
• Build the internal tooling and reference implementations the rest of the practice reuses
• Explain your design to a client's engineers and defend the parts they push back on

Skills

Production services ownership

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Containers

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and ship services in the agentic identity stack, owning components end to end and reverse‑engineering identity behaviors in client environments. You will prototype against evolving standards, build internal tooling, and explain designs to client engineers.

This hands‑on role requires 3+ years shipping production software, 2+ years in at least one modern language, and cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP with containers and