Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

$172K/yr – $245K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 13 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own POV engagements and field validations, build and maintain advanced lab topologies, troubleshoot escalations, author deployment docs, and deliver field enablement across complex enterprise environments.

  • Lead POVs and executive evaluations
  • Develop lab topologies and enablement programs

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Customer Proof of Value (POV) Engagements & Field Validations by directly owning and executing hands-on technical POVs, architectural demonstrations, and pilot evaluations with enterprise prospects and customers to validate technical capabilities, eliminate sales friction, and accelerate enterprise deal closure
  • Architect, Build, and Maintain Advanced Lab Topologies by designing, deploying, and maintaining resilient physical and virtual networking lab environments simulating complex enterprise branch, edge, retail network topologies to rigorously test product behavior, interoperability, and real-world scale
  • Drive Complex Technical Troubleshooting & Escalation Resolution by serving as the direct technical escalation bridge between field teams and core engineering to diagnose, reproduce, and resolve critical L2/L3 networking escalations, network segmentation challenges, and packet-level anomalies during active customer pilots
  • Author Technical Documentation, Deployment Guides, and Reference Architectures by developing production-ready technical collateral, including step-by-step deployment runbooks, reference architectures, white papers, competitive test plans, and solution briefs to standardize best practices and accelerate post-sales time-to-value
  • Deliver Field Readiness & Enablement Training by creating and conducting high-impact technical training programs, interactive workshops, and technical webinars for Systems Engineers (SEs), professional services, and channel partner architects to scale deployment self-sufficiency across distributed enterprise environments

Requirements

  • Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in technical marketing, solutions architecture, or advanced systems engineering with deep subject matter expertise in enterprise routing, switching, TCP/IP, L2/L3 network segmentation, and tunneling protocols (WireGuard, IPsec, VxLAN)
  • Proven track record of leading and winning hands-on customer Proof of Value (POV) pilots and executive architectural evaluations within complex enterprise and distributed edge networking environments
  • Hands-on proficiency in building and maintaining multi-vendor physical and virtual network lab topologies using bare-metal appliances, hypervisors (ESXi, KVM), and network emulation platforms (EVE-NG, GNS3)
  • Advanced packet analysis and troubleshooting expertise using Wireshark, tcpdump, and traffic generation tools to diagnose real-time routing anomalies, latency/jitter, MTU issues, and NAT/firewall traversal
  • Demonstrated track record of authoring production-grade technical collateral (deployment runbooks, reference architectures, white papers) and delivering technical enablement sessions to sales engineering, professional services, and partner teams

Preferred

  • Practical experience with Python, Bash scripting, or infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, REST APIs) to automate lab deployment, test execution, and repetitive networking workflows
  • Working knowledge of public cloud networking architectures (AWS VPCs/Transit Gateways, Azure Virtual WAN, GCP Cloud Routers) or container networking environments (Docker, Kubernetes) connecting distributed branch edges to cloud workloads
  • Recognized networking or security certifications (e.g., CCIE/CCNP Enterprise or Security, JNCIP, PCNSE) or direct architectural experience with retail, kiosk, IoT/OT, or cellular WAN/5G failover deployments

Benefits

  • Various health plans
  • Time off plans for vacation and sick time
  • Parental leave options
  • Retirement options
  • Education reimbursement
  • In-office perks, and more!
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Zscaler empowers enterprises to modernize security, streamline operations and help transform business through its innovative approach to cybersecurity. The Zero Trust Exchange platform, strengthened by AI, safeguards thousands of customers against cyber threats and data breaches by securely connecting users, devices, and applications from any location. With over 500 billion transactions processed daily, Zscaler operates the largest in-line cloud security platform, preventing more than 9 billion security incidents and policy violations each day. Transform your business with Zscaler’s cutting-edge approach to cybersecurity.Stay Connected:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zscalerTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/zscalerFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zscaler/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zscalerinc/

Founded in 2008
San Jose, California, USA
9.4K employees (451 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

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  • Apr 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $22.7M
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Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

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