Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
San Jose · USD 171,500-245,000 · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Jose
- Salary
- USD 171,500-245,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Principal Technical Marketing Engineer will drive technical enablement, customer validation, and field readiness for Zero Trust Branch solutions.
- This role acts as a bridge between engineering and field teams, architecting lab environments and leading hands-on Proof of Value (POV) engagements.
- The position focuses on solving enterprise networking challenges and accelerating customer adoption across distributed edge environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead Customer Proof of Value (POV) engagements and field validations to eliminate sales friction.
- Architect, build, and maintain advanced physical and virtual networking lab topologies.
- Serve as a technical escalation bridge between field teams and core engineering to resolve L2/L3 networking issues.
- Author technical documentation including deployment runbooks, reference architectures, and white papers.
- Deliver technical training programs, workshops, and webinars for Systems Engineers and channel partners.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in technical marketing, solutions architecture, or advanced systems engineering.
- Deep subject matter expertise in enterprise routing, switching, TCP/IP, L2/L3 segmentation, and tunneling protocols.
- Proven track record of leading and winning hands-on customer Proof of Value (POV) pilots.
- Hands-on proficiency in building multi-vendor network lab topologies using hypervisors and emulation platforms.
- Advanced packet analysis and troubleshooting expertise using Wireshark, tcpdump, and traffic generation tools.
- Demonstrated track record of authoring production-grade technical collateral.
- Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools to enhance workflows.
Preferred qualifications
- Proven ability to leverage AI technologies to drive operational efficiency.
- Practical experience with Python, Bash scripting, or infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible and Terraform.
- Working knowledge of public cloud networking architectures or container networking environments.
- Recognized networking or security certifications such as CCIE, CCNP, JNCIP, or PCNSE.
- 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
Workplace
- Hybrid role
Skills
- TCP/IP
- WireGuard
- IPsec
- VxLAN
- ESXi
- KVM
- EVE-NG
- GNS3
- Wireshark
- Tcpdump
- Python
- Ansible
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- Terraform
- AWS
- Kubernetes
