Principal Network Sales Engineer

Location: Remote/Teleworker in the United States, with a preference for candidates in Seattle or Kansas City, or near a major airport to support customer travel. Customer travel typically takes 20–30% of working time.

Salary: USD 175,000–411,500 annual salary in Missouri and Washington, including base salary and target-level sales compensation.

Company

hirify.global is a global edge-to-cloud technology company delivering networking, security, data, and cloud solutions.

What you will do

• Drive technical consulting for new and existing service provider networking opportunities.
• Advise account teams and customers on routing, automation, security, data center, and cross-segment technologies.
• Understand customer requirements, design solutions, deliver technical presentations and demonstrations, and support proof-of-concept tests.
• Contribute to RFP responses and provide guidance throughout complex sales cycles.
• Build relationships with account management, product management, engineering, and customer technical teams.
• Present at conferences, technology days, innovation days, and other industry events.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant networking experience, including customer-facing pre-sales work or equivalent design, architecture, or vendor-selection experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical discipline.
• Expert hands-on knowledge of BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, multicast, L2/L3 VPNs, BNG, Carrier Ethernet, MPLS, RSVP, SR-TE, and SRv6.
• Strong knowledge of mobile wireless architecture, virtualization, data center networking, network management, service provisioning, automation, monitoring, and telemetry.
• Experience with Netconf/REST APIs, YANG, OpenConfig, gRPC, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, or Ansible.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with technical and executive stakeholders in multinational teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Paragon, MIST, Apstra, or equivalent competitive products.
• Knowledge of merchant silicon technologies such as Trident, Tomahawk, or Jericho.
• Familiarity with MX/PTX, SRX, QFX, Nexus, or Arista platforms and equivalent products.
• Professional-level industry certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with flexibility to manage professional and personal needs.
• Health, financial, and emotional wellbeing benefits for employees and their loved ones.
• Career development programs supporting advancement and skill growth.
• Inclusive workplace that values varied backgrounds and individual uniqueness.