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Sales Engineer

Datadog· Sales
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Hybrid (Tokyo)full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Datadog Sales Engineer in Tokyo, Japan, providing technical expertise to qualify and close opportunities through presentations, demonstrations, and POCs while collaborating with product, sales, and customer success teams. Hybrid workplace with in-person time at Tokyo office.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the sales and customer success teams 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 broad range of potential and existing clients
  • Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests
  • Help clients try and onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks.
  • Think creatively and help resolve the wide variety of technical challenges that may occur during the overall customer’s life cycle

Qualifications

  • Minimum 2+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering
  • Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring, cloud architecture tools, and modern web development
  • Thrives in a high velocity environment juggling a high number of concurrent engagements of varied size and complexity
  • Enjoys collaborating and teaming with others
  • Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos
  • Native-level Japanese proficiency (written and spoken) is required
  • Able to think creatively about a wide variety of challenges
  • enjoys hybrid office culture and spending time in-person at Tokyo office
  • Able to travel up to 25% of the time

Skills

Required:Sales EngineeringDevOps monitoringCloud architectureProduct demonstrations

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
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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