Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

SpruceID

Remote regions

US

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What You'll Do:

  • Define technical strategy and architecture for public sector deployments, ensuring both technical excellence and alignment with policy and operational needs
  • Act as the senior technical representative in executive-level customer meetings, bridging the gap between technical details and business or policy outcomes
  • Lead multiple end-to-end multi-year projects from rapid prototyping to development to operations and maintenance

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, and delivering production-grade software in statically typed languages (Rust, Go, Java, C#)
  • Proven ability to lead large-scale engineering efforts that span multiple teams and organizations
  • Strong expertise across the software development stack, including infrastructure, devops, architecture, frontend, and mobile

Bonus Qualifications:

  • Experience leading digital transformation or modernization efforts in the public sector
  • Familiarity with procurement, compliance, and governance considerations in state government projects
  • Deep knowledge of digital identity, computer security, cryptography, and user data privacy practices

SpruceID

SpruceID builds privacy-preserving, standards-based digital identity and credentialing solutions that give individuals control of their information while enabling governments and enterprises to deliver secure, interoperable services. They partner with public-sector organizations to modernize how identity is issued, verified, and used.

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