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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Spruce Systems, Inc., United States

Posted pay

$200K–$225K

a year

Location: United States
Work type: Remote
Level: Principal
Experience: 8+ years
Skills in the job text: Java
Go
Rust
C#
Posted: Nov 18, 2025
Last check: 7 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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The role

As a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of technical leadership and strategic delivery. You will lead high-impact engagements with state governments and public sector partners, guiding both the architecture and the adoption strategy for digital identity solutions. You’ll work closely with engineering teams, delivery managers, and executives, both within SpruceID and on the customer side, to ensure that deployments not only succeed technically, but also achieve lasting policy and operational outcomes.

This role is hands-on and customer-facing. You’ll write and review code, architect systems, and set engineering best practices, while also shaping roadmaps, influencing standards, and representing SpruceID in strategic conversations.

This job is fully remote within the US.

What you will 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
Architect and build backend systems, full-stack web applications, and mobile solutions with a focus on security, privacy, and accessibility
Translate government requirements into robust, standards-based solutions that integrate with both modern and legacy systems
Mentor and guide forward deployed engineers and delivery teams, setting standards for high-quality engineering and customer collaboration
Identify and drive efficiencies across projects, ensuring knowledge and tooling are shared across teams
Collaborate with platform teams to feed customer insights into SpruceID’s roadmap and contributions to global identity standards

What you need

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
Demonstrated experience working with public sector or highly regulated industries, including direct customer engagement at both executive and technical levels
Excellent leadership, communication, and consulting skills with the ability to influence strategy as well as execution
Based in the US and willing to travel as needed to support state government partners

Nice to have

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
Experience as a Field CTO or similar

About Spruce Systems, Inc.

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. We partner with public-sector organizations to modernize how identity is issued, verified, and used.

Legal notes

At SpruceID, we value diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

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Open tech jobs: 7
With posted pay: 71%
Median posted base: $150K–$200K

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This base pay is below the median for principal software engineering jobs that are remote in the US.

Median: $232K a year
Other jobs in the group: 120

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