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Sales Engineer 2 (Customer Success) - Denver

Datadog· Sales
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Hybrid (Denver)$92k - $122kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Datadog Sales Engineer role focusing on qualifying and closing opportunities through technical expertise, demonstrations, and evaluations, with partnership to Customer Success in a hybrid Denver office.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the Customer Success 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, communicating business value to buying teams and helping position accounts for a successful long-term partnership that sets the stage for future growth.
  • 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 sales cycle.

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
  • Experience with modern infrastructure technologies, such as cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, networking, and/or operating systems
  • Able to translate technical capabilities into meaningful business outcomes for customers
  • Comfortable independently leading technical presentations, product demonstrations, and evaluations
  • Skilled at navigating multiple customer stakeholders while managing several active evaluations simultaneously
  • Effective communicator and collaborator with both technical practitioners and business stakeholders
  • Curious, adaptable, and eager to continually learn and expand technical expertise
  • Enjoys a hybrid office culture and spending time in-person at our Denver office
  • Able to sit for up to 4 hours while traveling to and from client sites
  • Able to travel via auto, train, or air up to 25% of the time

Skills

Required:Sales engineering / technical salesCloud infrastructure

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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