Forward Deployed Identity Platform Engineer

Accenture; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Identity Platform team. You’ll write production code in client environments, owning components end to end and translating complex identity problems into practical engineering solutions.

You'll work on agent registries, authorization engines, and runtime attribution, prototype against evolving standards, and explain designs to client engineers, sometimes traveling to client sites as needed.

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)
• At least 1 production service or component you owned end to end, covering design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation

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++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Identity Platform team. You’ll write production code in client environments, owning components end to end and translating complex identity problems into practical engineering solutions.

You'll work on agent registries, authorization engines, and runtime attribution, prototype against evolving standards, and explain designs to client engineers, sometimes traveling to client sites as needed.