HPE
Principal Network Sales Engineer
$175K–$412K
Seattle, Washington +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America - Experience
- 10+ years of relevant networking experience, with customer-facing pre-sales experience selling networking equipment or equivalent end-user experience in design, architecture, or vendor selection.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical discipline required.
About the job
Leads customer-facing technical pre-sales for service-provider networking opportunities, advising customers on architecture and solutions and supporting the sales cycle.
What you'll do
- Consult on networking opportunities and build relationships with account, product, engineering, and customer teams.
- Guide solution design; deliver technical presentations and demonstrations; support proof-of-concept tests and RFP responses.
- Connect technical solutions to customer business needs and represent the company at industry events.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical discipline.
- Expert-level hands-on knowledge of routing protocols and tunneling technologies, including BGP, ISIS, OSPF, MPLS, RSVP, SR-TE, and SRv6.
- Hands-on expertise in network management, service provisioning, automation, monitoring, and telemetry interfaces.
- Ability to support complex proof-of-concept tests and communicate effectively with technical and executive audiences.
Nice to have
- Experience with Paragon, MIST, Apstra, or equivalent competitive products.
- Professional-level industry certification.
Pay
USD 175,000 - 411,500 annual total pay (combined base and target-level sales compensation; 75%/25% mix)
Tools
BGP, ISIS, OSPF, MPLS, Netconf/REST APIs, YANG, OpenConfig, gRPC
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