Agentic Identity Platform Engineer - Forward Deployed

Accenture; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 59,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical-dental-vision benefits

401(k) plan

Bonuses

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform to write code in client environments and to understand complex systems at implementation depth. You’ll build and ship services in the identity stack, own components end-to-end, and reverse-engineer identity in real client contexts.

You’ll prototype against emerging standards and defend designs to client engineers. The role requires hands-on production software experience, cloud proficiency across AWS/Azure/GCP, and a

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.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship services in the agentic 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

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C+

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

SAML

PKI

mTLS

distributed systems

cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform to write code in client environments and to understand complex systems at implementation depth. You’ll build and ship services in the identity stack, own components end-to-end, and reverse-engineer identity in real client contexts.

You’ll prototype against emerging standards and defend designs to client engineers. The role requires hands-on production software experience, cloud proficiency across AWS/Azure/GCP, and a