Commercial & Mid-Market Sales Engineer

The role

Datadog Sales Engineer validates and closes opportunities with customers and partners. This person provides technical expertise through sales presentations, product demos, and technical evaluation support.

What you will do

• Collaborate with sales teams to communicate Datadog value proposition, vision, and strategy
• Continuously learn new technologies to build competitive knowledge, skills, and trust
• Provide product and technical presentations to potential customers
• Communicate directly with product teams to collaborate on feature requests
• Help with customer product onboarding and provide support when obstacles arise
• Think creatively about various technical challenges during the pre-sales lifecycle

Required qualifications

• Extensive knowledge and experience in DevOps monitoring or architecture tools
• Ability to deliver technical presentations and demos to external customers or internal teams confidently
• Enjoy solving diverse problems creatively and learning new things daily
• Windows or Linux system administration experience
• Familiarity with business travel to meet customers

Nice to have

• Experience building and operating DevSecOps systems
• Experience explaining penetration testing or new vulnerability discoveries to development teams and deriving response plans together

Benefits

• Top-tier onboarding
• Rich global benefits
• Departmental mentor and buddy programs for internal networking
• New hire Restricted Stock Units (RSU) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career paths
• Inclusive corporate culture, community guilds, and inclusion talks

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.