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Commercial Sales Engineer 2 (AMER - West)

Datadog· Sales
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Denver, CO$92k - $122kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Datadog Sales Engineers provide technical expertise throughout the sales cycle, owning technical engagements from kickoff to completion and partnering with Account Executives to align customer objectives with Datadog's platform. Hybrid workplace with travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the sales team to articulate Datadog's value proposition, vision, and technical strategy throughout the sales cycle.
  • Deliver tailored product demonstrations and technical presentations that map customer challenges to Datadog solutions.
  • Assist with technical discovery by identifying customer business objectives, technical challenges, and success criteria.
  • Own technical evaluations (POCs) from kickoff through successful completion, proactively driving customer engagement and removing technical blockers.
  • Continually expand your expertise across Datadog's platform while building competitive knowledge and technical credibility.
  • Develop trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders while effectively communicating business value to broader buying teams.
  • Contribute to team success by sharing best practices, mentoring newer Sales Engineers, and supporting enablement initiatives.
  • Think creatively to solve a wide variety of technical challenges throughout the pre-sales lifecycle.

Qualifications

  • Ideally 1.5 years or greater as a Sales Engineer or in a comparable customer-facing technical role.
  • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, modern application architectures, observability, and/or DevOps technologies.
  • Comfortable independently leading technical presentations, product demonstrations, and evaluations.
  • Able to translate technical capabilities into meaningful business outcomes for customers.
  • Effective communicating with both technical practitioners (Developers, SREs, Platform Engineers, Operations teams) and business stakeholders.
  • Comfortable navigating multiple customer stakeholders while managing several active evaluations simultaneously.
  • Curious, adaptable, and eager to continually learn and expand technical expertise.
  • Experience with modern infrastructure technologies, such as cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, networking, and/or operating systems.

Skills

Required:Sales engineeringCloud infrastructureProduct demonstrations

Benefits

  • Best-in-class onboarding
  • Generous global benefits
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career growth opportunities
  • An inclusive company culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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