Senior Forward-Deployed Identity Platform Engineer

Socket.dev; Missouri; On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in the Identity Platform to provide technical leadership on engagements where you will review designs, prototype implementations, and make critical build-versus-buy decisions. You’ll work closely with client teams, shaping architecture and guiding engineers to deliver robust identity solutions in complex environments.

You’ll travel as needed and must have 8+ years building production software, plus deep experience in distributed systems and cloud

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Hands-on technical work within the last 24 months, counting development, prototyping, code review, or technical design review.
• Minimum of 4 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C++.
• Minimum of 4 years designing and building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Minimum of 2 years of technical leadership of at least 2 engineers, including code review and design review responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design for an engagement, including the decisions you’ll be held to when they're wrong
• Stay close enough to the agentic identity stack to review the implementation critically and prototype in it when that's the fastest way to settle a question
• Set the technical direction the engineers on your engagement follow, and review their code
• Reverse-engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be
• Make the build-versus-buy calls and document why, in a form that survives your leaving the project
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists
• Build the reference implementations and technical content that become how the practice does this work
• Grow the engineers around you, primarily by working alongside them rather than reviewing from a distance

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

12 years work experience (exception for Associate’s degree)

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer in the Identity Platform to provide technical leadership on engagements where you will review designs, prototype implementations, and make critical build-versus-buy decisions. You’ll work closely with client teams, shaping architecture and guiding engineers to deliver robust identity solutions in complex environments.

You’ll travel as needed and must have 8+ years building production software, plus deep experience in distributed systems and cloud