Commercial Sales Engineer - Boston

The role

Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners. You will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and technical evaluations.

What you will do

• Partner with the sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
• Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
• Deliver product and technical presentations with potential clients
• Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests
• Help clients onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks
• Think creatively about a wide variety of technical challenges during the pre-sales life cycle
• Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs)
• Work with various teams to resolve customer concerns and escalate bug issues

Required qualifications

• Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring or architecture tools
• Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos to either external customers or internal teams
• Able to think creatively about a wide variety of challenges
• Previously experienced in systems administrations: Windows or Linux
• Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites
• Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 25% of the time

Benefits

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs)
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Inclusive company culture, able to join Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan

About the company

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place.