Identity Platform Engineer - Hands-On Security

Accenture; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Identity and Access Management platform in the United States. The role is hands-on, expects you to understand systems at depth and build within them when needed. If your recent experience is limited to producing architecture decks or vendor implementations, this is probably not the right fit.

Travel may be required for this role as project needs vary. We value engineers who can explain complex designs to client teams and who will contribute

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 deployments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

Containers

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Identity and Access Management platform in the United States. The role is hands-on, expects you to understand systems at depth and build within them when needed. If your recent experience is limited to producing architecture decks or vendor implementations, this is probably not the right fit.

Travel may be required for this role as project needs vary. We value engineers who can explain complex designs to client teams and who will contribute