Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

California, MO (Remote)

$196K/yr – $245K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

You will own hands-on technical POVs and architectural demos for enterprise prospects, design and maintain lab topologies, drive field enablement, and produce deployment runbooks and reference architectures while serving as the primary escalation bridge between field teams and core engineering.

  • Lead POV pilots and executive evaluations
  • Create deployment runbooks and reference architectures
  • Deliver field enablement sessions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own hands-on technical POVs, architectural demos, and pilot evaluations for enterprise prospects and customers to validate capabilities and accelerate deal closure
  • Design, deploy, and maintain resilient physical and virtual networking lab topologies
  • Serve as the primary technical troubleshooting bridge and escalation path between field teams and core engineering
  • Author production-ready technical collateral, including step-by-step deployment runbooks, reference architectures, and competitive test plans
  • Deliver high-impact field enablement sessions, hands-on training workshops, and webinars for SEs, professional services, and partner architects

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
  • Proven track record of leading hands-on customer Proof of Value (POV) pilots and executive architectural evaluations
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in technical marketing, product management, or solutions architecture
  • Deep proficiency in building and maintaining multi-vendor physical and virtual network lab topologies
  • Advanced packet analysis and troubleshooting expertise using Wireshark, tcpdump, and traffic generation tools to diagnose routing anomalies, latency/jitter, MTU issues, and NAT/firewall traversal

Preferred

  • Hands-on experience with cloud network frameworks, such as AWS Transit Gateways/VPCs, GCP Cloud Routers, or Azure Virtual WAN, to connect distributed branches to cloud environments
  • Prior experience with network observability and monitoring solutions

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

Salaries

Posted range

$196K/yr – $245K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$1.7B
Last Raise
$1.5B
Post IPO Debt, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.5B
  • Apr 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $22.7M
  • Nov 2017
    Secondary Market

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$274K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
23.9%
Direct
58.8%
Referral
13.5%
Social
2%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9.4K

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Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Zscaler · California, MO · Remote