Forward Deployed Identity Platform Engineer

Accenture; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform. This hands-on role requires deep system understanding, design, and building in production environments for MCP servers and credential services.

You will prototype against emerging standards, own end-to-end components, and collaborate with client engineers to defend designs while delivering robust security solutions.

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++

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

12 years work experience alternative

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform. This hands-on role requires deep system understanding, design, and building in production environments for MCP servers and credential services.

You will prototype against emerging standards, own end-to-end components, and collaborate with client engineers to defend designs while delivering robust security solutions.