About the Role
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners. You will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). Sales Engineers have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we’d love to meet you!</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.</span></em></p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Partner with the sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deliver product and technical presentations with potential clients</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Help clients onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think creatively about a wide variety of technical challenges during the pre-sales life cycle </span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring or architecture tools. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos to either external customers or internal teams</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to think creatively about a wide variety of challenges. You're going to find new things every day</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Previously experienced in systems administrations: Windows or Linux</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 25% of the time</span></li> </ul> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.</span></em></p> <p><strong>Benefits and Growth:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Best-in-breed onboarding</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous global benefits</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing