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Commercial & Mid-Market Sales Engineer

Datadog· Sales
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SeoulFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Sales Engineer role providing technical expertise through demonstrations, evaluations, and collaboration with customers and product teams to qualify and close opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
  • Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. Communicate Datadog’s value based on activities and work with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion
  • Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
  • Deliver product and technical briefings / presentations to potential clients
  • Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses
  • Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape

Qualifications

  • Passionately educate customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer
  • Strong written and oral communication skills with ability to articulate both business benefits and technical advantages
  • Experience in programming/scripting with Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET etc.
  • Minimum 3+ years in a Sales Engineering, Software Engineering DevOps, SRE or Security Engineering role
  • Minimum 5+ years in IT industry
  • Experience building and operating DevSecOps frameworks is a plus
  • Experience explaining penetration testing findings and vulnerabilities to backend teams and collaborating on remediation is a plus
  • Willingness to travel frequently to meet customers as part of the role

Skills

Required:Observability and security domain knowledgeCommunicationProgramming / scriptingTravel readiness

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, Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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