Senior Technical Marketing Engineer – Network Automation

Role overview

This senior technical marketing engineer role focuses on network automation, sitting at the intersection of product management and go-to-market execution. The position translates advanced automation capabilities into compelling workflows, technical content, and field enablement that resonate with network engineering practitioners and decision-makers. It is a non-quota-carrying, highly technical, and externally visible role with meaningful influence on product direction and market positioning.

Responsibilities

- Partner with Product Management to define, validate, and shape automation-related capabilities and use cases. - Design and evangelize customer workflows that realize the value of automation features, including query engines, APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification. - Enhance existing product integrations and build new ones to expand automation and interoperability across the broader network and IT ecosystem. - Build and maintain lab environments to support demos, technical validation, and automation use-case exploration. - Develop internal training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content. - Collaborate with Marketing on external-facing assets such as whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, and videos. - Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos, messaging, and technical training. - Represent the company at customer meetings, webinars, and industry conferences focused on networking and automation. - Contribute thought leadership on network automation, NetDevOps, and intent-based networking trends. - Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and automation positioning.

Requirements

- 8+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role. - Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including routing, switching, and network change management. - Experience with NetDevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code workflows applied to networking. - Familiarity with source control (Git), API integration, and building automation against network data models. - Hands-on experience with network automation tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, or similar frameworks. - Experience working with complex enterprise networks across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments, including at least one major cloud platform. - Proven ability to build and operate lab environments for demos and technical validation. - Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or a related field.

Nice to have

- Working knowledge of data query and transformation languages such as GraphQL, JSONPath, or comparable query engines. - Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and hands-on experience exploring AI-driven use cases in network operations or data analysis. - Working knowledge of Linux administration. - Familiarity with network visibility, verification, or analytics platforms. - Experience presenting at conferences, webinars, or customer-facing technical events.

Benefits and work setup

The base pay range for this role is between $200,000 and $230,000, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.