Forward-Deployed Identity Platform Engineer

Accenture; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in California is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work on the Agentic Identity Platform. You will write code in client environments, understand systems at depth, and handle end-to-end ownership of components.

This hands-on role emphasizes building authentication layers, registries, and authorization engines, with occasional travel and collaboration with client engineers to defend designs and ship production software.

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)

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

Job description

Accenture in California is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work on the Agentic Identity Platform. You will write code in client environments, understand systems at depth, and handle end-to-end ownership of components.

This hands-on role emphasizes building authentication layers, registries, and authorization engines, with occasional travel and collaboration with client engineers to defend designs and ship production software.