Commercial Sales Engineer
Datadog · Posted Oct 27
Cloud-scale monitoring, observability, and security platform services
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About the role
Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners, providing technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). Datadog is an observability and security platform providing unified visibility across applications, infrastructure, data, models and security. The role partners with the sales team to articulate the Datadog value proposition, onboard clients, and relay customer feedback to the product team.
What you will do
- Partner with the sales team 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 potential clients
- Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests
- Help clients onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks.
- Think creatively about a wide variety of technical challenges during the pre-sales life cycle
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Minimum 3+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering
- Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring or architecture tools.
- Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos to either external customers or internal teams
- Able to think creatively about a wide variety of challenges. You're going to find new things every day
- Previously experienced in systems administrations: Windows or Linux
- Able to travel up to 25% of the time
Benefits and support
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global benefits, including fitness subsidy, home office benefits and mental health support.
- India-specific benefits, including medical insurance for employees + dependents and health check-ups.
- Family-specific benefits, including parental leave, child care subsidy and family-formation 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
About Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. It integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, and cloud security to provide real-time observability for modern development and operations teams.
- Industry
- Cloud Monitoring
- Company size
- 8100+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $147M raised
- 2010-07-27Series A$6.2M
- 2012-02-28Series B$15M
- 2014-01-23Series C$31M
- 2015-01-28Series D$94.5M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
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