Datadog: Enterprise Sales Engineer - FED

About the role

Headquarters: District of Columbia, USA, Remote; Maryland, USA, Remote; Virginia, USA, Remote As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you'll partner with Sales to help customers understand the value of Datadog and how it solves their most important technical and business challenges. You'll lead technical evaluations, deliver compelling demos, and guide customers through the journey from discovery to successful adoption. You'll act as a trusted advisor, bridging business goals with technical solutions, and play a key role in winning new business and expanding existing accounts. At Datadog, we place va

Requirements

• Identify and cultivate technical champions within customer accounts, empowering them to advocate for Datadog adoption and drive consensus internally
• Participate actively in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, serving as the technical voice of the customer to help shape product direction
• Maintain operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documented and up to date in related systems
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Support, and GTM teams to address customer needs and resolve technical blockers
• 5+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role within an enterprise environment
• Skilled at navigating multi-stakeholder environments and adapting communication style to technical, business, and executive audiences
• Proficient background in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, observability
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to a range of audiences