Identity Security Engineer: Hands-On IAM & Cloud

Accenture; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Identity Platform team. This is a hands-on role focused on building and shipping production software, understanding client environments, and delivering end-to-end security solutions in a fast-paced consulting setting.

You will work on identity stack components such as authorization engines, credential brokers, and authentication layers, with opportunities to prototype standards and mentor client engineers.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years building and shipping production software.
• Hands-on work within the last 18 months: 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.

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

Production software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Tools

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Accenture Security is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Identity Platform team. This is a hands-on role focused on building and shipping production software, understanding client environments, and delivering end-to-end security solutions in a fast-paced consulting setting.

You will work on identity stack components such as authorization engines, credential brokers, and authentication layers, with opportunities to prototype standards and mentor client engineers.