Forward-Deployed Agentic Identity Security Engineer

Vibehackers; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Vibehackers is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Identity Platform, to design, implement and operate services that secure autonomous AI agents and non-human identities. You will own the end-to-end stack—from design to deployment and incident response—across client environments.

You will prototype against emerging standards, work on authentication layers, registries, and credential brokers, and collaborate with clients to deliver robust security solutions in production settings.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional software development experience.
• Recent hands-on production development, prototyping, or code review (within 18 months).
• 2+ years in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TS, Java, or C++.
• 2+ years building concurrent or distributed production systems.
• 2+ years deploying and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) with containers and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship services in the agentic identity stack for secure autonomous agents.
• Own components end-to-end: design, deployment, and incident response.
• Reverse-engineer identity behavior in client environments and design improvements.
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas with limited documentation.
• Build internal tooling and reference implementations used across practice.
• Explain and defend technical designs to client engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Equivalent 12 years work experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

MCP

Job description

Vibehackers is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Identity Platform, to design, implement and operate services that secure autonomous AI agents and non-human identities. You will own the end-to-end stack—from design to deployment and incident response—across client environments.

You will prototype against emerging standards, work on authentication layers, registries, and credential brokers, and collaborate with clients to deliver robust security solutions in production settings.