Commercial Sales Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Sales Engineer and contribute to qualifying and closing sales opportunities with customers and partners. You will leverage your technical expertise through presentations, demonstrations, and technical evaluations. Collaborate with the product team to prioritize features and work with various teams to resolve customer issues. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace model for work-life balance. The role requires experience with DevOps monitoring or architecture tools and strong presentation skills. Datadog values a diverse and inclusive workplace and offers various benefits and growth opportunities.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
• Operate as a hybrid workplace