Forward-Deployed Identity Engineer

Accenture; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and ship production software in the identity platform. You’ll own components end to end, prototype against emerging standards, and explain designs to client engineers while collaborating with Fortune 100 clients.

The role involves deep systems knowledge, writing code in languages like Python/Go/Rust/TypeScript/Java/C++, and deploying on AWS/Azure/GCP with CI/CD. Travel may be required.

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++

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent work experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Accenture Security seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and ship production software in the identity platform. You’ll own components end to end, prototype against emerging standards, and explain designs to client engineers while collaborating with Fortune 100 clients.

The role involves deep systems knowledge, writing code in languages like Python/Go/Rust/TypeScript/Java/C++, and deploying on AWS/Azure/GCP with CI/CD. Travel may be required.