AI-Native Engineering Manager — Lead Production AI Systems

Accenture PLC; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 291,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC in the United States is seeking a senior software engineer to design and operate end-to-end production systems across applications, APIs, data, and AI. You will own cloud-native architectures, pipelines, and security controls while guiding multidisciplinary teams.

The role requires deep experience across front end to backend, strong programming skills, and hands-on cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP). Travel may be required as projects demand.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, building and operating production systems.
• 5+ years hands-on experience across front end/API through services, integration, persistence, and async processing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production systems across front end, APIs, back end services, integration, data, infrastructure, and AI components.
• Diagnose production issues across apps, networks, infrastructure, identity, data, or AI workloads.
• Build and deploy cloud-native platforms using containerization, serverless tech, and IaC with Terraform/Helm.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security controls, and release management.
• Design AI-enabled or agentic systems with retrieval, context, orchestration, and evaluation.

Skills

Software engineering

Full stack

Programming languages

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

AI-enabled systems

AI-native tooling

Leadership experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes

Job description

Accenture PLC in the United States is seeking a senior software engineer to design and operate end-to-end production systems across applications, APIs, data, and AI. You will own cloud-native architectures, pipelines, and security controls while guiding multidisciplinary teams.

The role requires deep experience across front end to backend, strong programming skills, and hands-on cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP). Travel may be required as projects demand.