Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer — IAM & SaaS Integrations

Cakewalk; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary + bonus

Meaningful equity

Founding hire at category-defining co.

London office 3 days/week

Job summary

As the founding FDE, you’ll define how this function works, own end-to-end demos, and help build the team behind it. You’ll work with IdPs, HRIS, SaaS apps and AI agent frameworks, while shaping product and field strategy for rapid, secure deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Forward Deployed Engineering or similar customer-facing technical role
• Early-stage SaaS startup experience—you’ve built without a playbook
• Hands-on development skills: APIs, scripting, automation & building integrations from scratch
• Practical understanding of identity and access management concepts — SSO, SCIM, OAuth, RBAC, provisioning, governance
• Experience integrating with identity platforms, security tooling or AI agent frameworks
• Excellent communication skills — credible with platform engineers and CISOs
• Based in London and able to work from our office 3 days a week

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with prospects and translate identity/security/agent requirements into a workable solution
• Own POCs end to end: scoping, success criteria, build, and technical close
• Deliver tailored demos and build demo environments reflecting the customer’s stack
• Architect and prototype integrations with IdPs, HRIS, SaaS apps and AI agent frameworks
• Handle security reviews, architecture deep-dives and technical objections with the account team
• Partner with Customer Success on complex rollouts and integrations
• Feed field insight back to product and engineering and influence future work
• Write integration guides, reference architectures, POC playbooks and competitive positioning
• Set the standard for how solutions engineering runs at Cakewalk

Skills

FDE experience

SaaS startup

APIs & automation

IAM concepts

Security tooling

Stakeholder comms

Job description

As the founding FDE, you’ll define how this function works, own end-to-end demos, and help build the team behind it. You’ll work with IdPs, HRIS, SaaS apps and AI agent frameworks, while shaping product and field strategy for rapid, secure deployments.