Forward-Deployed Identity Security Engineer

Accenture; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform who writes code in client environments and understands systems at implementation depth. You will build and ship components, discuss designs with client engineers, and contribute to a growing identity stack. Travel may be required to meet client needs.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, prototype work, and collaboration across security and identity domains to secure modern enterprise environments.

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 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.
• Travel may be required; 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Skills

Production software

Hands-on coding

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Programming languages (Python/Go/Rust/

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR 12 years work experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

Job description

Accenture seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform who writes code in client environments and understands systems at implementation depth. You will build and ship components, discuss designs with client engineers, and contribute to a growing identity stack. Travel may be required to meet client needs.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, prototype work, and collaboration across security and identity domains to secure modern enterprise environments.