Identity Platform Engineer — Forward-Deployed

Accenture; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform in the United States. This hands-on role involves understanding complex identity systems, writing production code, and deploying reliable services with strong collaborations across clients and teams.

You will prototype against emerging standards, build internal tooling, and defend designs to client engineers. Travel may be required as projects vary in scope.

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.

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++

Cloud Platforms

Distributed Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Identity Platform in the United States. This hands-on role involves understanding complex identity systems, writing production code, and deploying reliable services with strong collaborations across clients and teams.

You will prototype against emerging standards, build internal tooling, and defend designs to client engineers. Travel may be required as projects vary in scope.