Forward-Deployed Identity Security Engineer

Accenture; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

Accenture is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for its Identity Platform. You will write production-grade code, understand client environments deeply, and implement identity primitives for secure, scalable access.

The role involves hands-on development, prototyping against standards, and collaborating with client engineers to defend designs. Travel may be required; you will work across modern authentication protocols and cloud infrastructure, with an emphasis on practical delivery and

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on technical work within the last 18 months, counting production development, prototyping, or code review.
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C+ with production experience.
• 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.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C+

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

token exchange

SAML

SPIFFE

PKI

mTLS

IAM

production services

on-call rotation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for its Identity Platform. You will write production-grade code, understand client environments deeply, and implement identity primitives for secure, scalable access.

The role involves hands-on development, prototyping against standards, and collaborating with client engineers to defend designs. Travel may be required; you will work across modern authentication protocols and cloud infrastructure, with an emphasis on practical delivery and