Forward-Deployed Identity Security Engineer

Accenture; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Identity Platform team. You will directly implement and integrate identity systems in client environments, building end-to-end services, registries, brokers, and authentication layers.

You’ll prototype against evolving standards and guide client engineers through architectural decisions. This hands-on role emphasizes production-grade coding, quick learning, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver secure, scalable

Qualifications

• Minimum 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.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Identity Platform team. You will directly implement and integrate identity systems in client environments, building end-to-end services, registries, brokers, and authentication layers.

You’ll prototype against evolving standards and guide client engineers through architectural decisions. This hands-on role emphasizes production-grade coding, quick learning, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver secure, scalable