Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

Zscaler
San Jose
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 171,500 - 245,000Function: Marketing & GrowthExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Customer obsession","Integrity","Urgency","Communication"]

Drive hands-on technical enablement for next-generation Zero Trust Branch solutions by owning customer Proof of Value (POV) pilots, architecting complex lab environments, and leading field-ready demonstrations. Serve as the technical escalation bridge between field teams and engineering for L2/L3 networking issues, author deployment guides and reference architectures, and deliver training and interactive workshops for systems engineers, professional services, and partners across distributed edge environments.

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Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

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Job Summary

Drive hands-on technical enablement for next-generation Zero Trust Branch solutions by owning customer Proof of Value (POV) pilots, architecting complex lab environments, and leading field-ready demonstrations. Serve as the technical escalation bridge between field teams and engineering for L2/L3 networking issues, author deployment guides and reference architectures, and deliver training and interactive workshops for systems engineers, professional services, and partners across distributed edge environments.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and execute hands-on customer Proof of Value (POV) engagements, architectural demonstrations, and pilot evaluations to validate technical capabilities and accelerate enterprise deal closure.
  • •Architect, build, and maintain advanced lab topologies by designing and maintaining physical and virtual networking labs that simulate complex enterprise branch and edge environments.
  • •Lead complex technical troubleshooting and escalation resolution by diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving critical L2/L3 networking escalations, segmentation issues, and packet-level anomalies.
  • •Author production-ready technical collateral including deployment guides, deployment runbooks, reference architectures, white papers, competitive test plans, and solution briefs.
  • •Deliver field readiness and enablement training through technical workshops and webinars for systems engineers, professional services, and channel partner architects.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 171,500 - 245,000
Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeaveRetirement

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of hands-on experience in technical marketing, solutions architecture, or advanced systems engineering with deep expertise in enterprise routing, switching, TCP/IP, and L2/L3 network segmentation.
  • •Strong knowledge of tunneling protocols including WireGuard, IPsec, and VxLAN.
  • •Proven track record leading and winning hands-on customer Proof of Value (POV) pilots and executive architectural evaluations in complex enterprise/distributed edge networking environments.
  • •Hands-on ability building and maintaining multi-vendor physical and virtual network lab topologies using bare-metal appliances, ESXi/KVM, and EVE-NG/GNS3.
  • •Advanced packet analysis and troubleshooting using Wireshark and tcpdump to diagnose routing anomalies, latency/jitter, MTU issues, and NAT/firewall traversal.
Experience:5+ yearsEnterprise networkingSASEZero trustEdge networking
Skills:OwnershipCustomer obsessionIntegrityUrgencyCommunication
Certifications:CCIECCNP EnterpriseCCNP SecurityJNCIPPCNSE
Languages:English
Tech Stack:WireGuardIPsecVxLANWiresharkTcpdumpESXiKVMEVE-NGGNS3PythonBashAnsibleTerraformREST APIsAWSAzure Virtual WANGCPDockerKubernetesMTU

Company Brief

Zscaler
Provides cloud-native security platform delivering secure access, threat protection, and zero trust services to organizations, enabling secure internet and private application access without traditional network appliances.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 2007
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