Remote Senior Sales Engineer at Zscaler - South Korea — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is listed as remote, based in South Korea, which means Zscaler expects you to be resident in South Korea — not location-independent across multiple countries. While the work itself (demos, video calls, technical documentation) is inherently digitally deliverable, the enterprise sales nature of the role means you'll need to be available during Korea Standard Time (KST, UTC+9) to meet with customers and attend internal calls.
For digital nomads, this creates a significant constraint: traveling to destinations with large time-zone differences (e.g., Lisbon UTC+1, Medellín UTC-5, or Bangkok UTC+7) would make customer-facing commitments extremely difficult. Bangkok (UTC+7) is the most compatible nomad hub — only 2 hours behind KST — and offers a very low cost of living relative to Seoul. However, working legally in Thailand on a tourist or destination-Thailand visa still carries compliance risk for an employee contract tied to South Korea.
- Visa consideration: South Korea does not yet have a dedicated digital nomad visa. If you are a non-Korean national, you would typically require an E-7 (specialty occupation) or a company-sponsored work visa to be legally employed there.
- Travel flexibility: Short regional hops within Asia (Japan, Taiwan, Singapore) are more feasible given the time-zone alignment, but always verify employment contract residency clauses.
- No explicit coworking or travel stipend is mentioned in the benefits — budget for your own workspace setup.
This role suits someone settled in South Korea who wants remote flexibility within the country, rather than a globally mobile nomad lifestyle.
About Zscaler
Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world's largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we're focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.
We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you're enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you're driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that's helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Role
We are looking for a Senior Sales Engineer to join our Solutions Consulting team. This is a remote role based in South Korea, reporting to the Head of Solution Engineering.
As a critical technical partner, you will drive the digital transformation of our enterprise customers by providing expert thought leadership and high-impact technical guidance. You will be responsible for the end-to-end technical sales process, ensuring our solutions are positioned to solve complex business challenges effectively.
What You'll Do (Role Expectations)
- Provide technical thought leadership and advice to enterprise customers on how to transform their digital experience
- Take total ownership of the technical sale and all associated processes
- Identify and qualify technical opportunities while developing and maintaining trusted advisor relationships with key customer stakeholders
- Deliver high-impact sales pitches, technical demonstrations, and whiteboard presentations to ensure successful solution deployments
Who You Are (Success Profile)
- You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
- You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. You adapt to what's needed, navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
- You are a problem-solver. You seek out challenges because you are energized by finding solutions, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
- You are customer-obsessed. You build deep empathy for the customer—both internal and external—and anchor your decisions in solving their real-world problems. You champion their needs from start to finish, knowing their success is our success.
- You lead with integrity. You do the right thing, even when it's hard. You hold yourself and others to a high standard of accountability and build trust by matching your words with consistent, transparent action.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience
- 7+ years of experience in presales roles, with at least 5 years specifically focused on selling security solutions and technologies
- Hands-on experience with systems installation and administration of routers/switches
- Deep technical knowledge of network security principles and applications
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical proficiency with GPO, Active Directory/LDAP, and SSO/SAML integrations
- Strong understanding of HTTP and web security technologies, including proxies, caches, and firewalls
Benefits
- Various health plans
- Time off plans for vacation and sick time
- Parental leave options
- Retirement options
- Education reimbursement
- In-office perks, and more!
Learn more about Zscaler's hybrid working model and benefits here.
By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.
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