Senior Technical Marketing Engineer (Network Automation)

Forward Networks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Top-grade health insurance

Generous vacation policy

Job summary

Forward Networks in the United States seeks a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer (Network Automation) to translate our automation capabilities into practical workflows and customer value. You will craft technical content, demos, and field enablement that resonate with network engineers and decision-makers.

In this highly visible role, you will collaborate with Product, Sales, and Marketing, build lab environments, support customer engagements, and shape product direction through field feedback

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
• Hands-on experience with network automation tooling and frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate across Product, Sales, and Marketing.
• Familiarity with Git, API integration, and automation against network data models.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts: routing and switching.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience building lab environments for demos and validation.

Responsibilities

• Translate Forward’s automation capabilities into compelling automation workflows and content.
• Design customer workflows leveraging NQE, APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification.
• Develop technical collateral, training materials, and sales enablement content.
• Collaborate with Marketing to create whitepapers, blogs, and solution briefs.
• Enable Sales with automation-focused demos and technical training.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Cloud platforms

Network automation

Lab environments

CI/CD / IaC

Linux administration

Communication skills

Public speaking

Team collaboration

APIs & data models

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Python

REST APIs

Job description

• We are seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer (Network Automation) to help drive adoption and understanding of Forward’s automation capabilities across customers, partners, and the broader network engineering community
• As a Senior Network Automation TME, you will sit at the intersection of product and go-to-market execution. You will translate Forward’s differentiated automation capabilities — network queries, verification-as-code, API-driven workflows, and CI/CD-style change validation — into compelling automation workflows, technical content, and field enablement that resonate with network automation practitioners and decision-makers
• This is a non-quota-carrying, highly technical, and externally visible role with meaningful influence on product direction and market positioning
• 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 NQE (Network Query Engine), 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 high-quality technical collateral for internal audiences, including training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content
• Collaborate with Marketing to create 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 Forward at customer meetings, webinars, and industry events, including networking and automation conferences and trade shows
• Contribute thought leadership on network automation trends and Forward’s role in modern NetDevOps and intent-based networking architectures
• Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and automation positioning

Benefits

• We’re an agile team and early-stage company with plenty of opportunities to grow, as a company and as individuals.
• Every team member receives a compensation package that includes equity, so we can grow together.
• We offer top-grade insurance, with medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family.
• Vacations, holidays, family days. With no tracked time off, you can go as long as it’s okay with your manager.

Requirements

• Experience working with complex enterprise networks across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform and familiarity with virtualization and containerized environments
• 8+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role
• Hands-on experience with network automation tooling and frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, or similar)
• Ability to work effectively across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams
• Familiarity with source control (Git), API integration, and building automation against network data models
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including routing, switching, and network change management
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or a related field
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to build and operate lab environments for demos and technical validation
• Experience with NetDevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code workflows applied to networking
• Working knowledge of data query and transformation languages (e.g., GraphQL, JSONPath, or a query engine such as Forward’s NQE)
• 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 Forward or similar network visibility, verification, or analytics platforms
• Experience presenting at conferences, webinars, or customer-facing technical events