Senior Sales Engineer

Datadog

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$149,000–$198,000 / yr
Posted
37 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $181k
This role $174k
$119k most similar roles pay here $223k

This role pays less than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$212,950 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $174k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 266 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $161,000–$205,000 across 138 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Sales Engineer

As a Senior Sales Engineer - Bay Area, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and the sales team. You will own the end-to-end evaluation experience for enterprise accounts, which includes leading customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, delivering tailored product demos, and managing proof of value projects. Your daily work involves shaping technical strategies, identifying champions in multi-stakeholder environments, and providing field feedback to product and engineering teams. To succeed, you must possess an advanced background in public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, and observability. You will utilize AI tooling to scale your impact while mentoring peers and creating reusable assets to drive operational excellence across the organization's technical offerings.

What you'll do

  • Lead the technical strategy for sales opportunities from initial prospecting to closing.
  • Conduct customer discovery to translate technical challenges and business goals into tailored solutions.
  • Deliver product demonstrations, technical presentations, and solution workshops for diverse stakeholder audiences.
  • Manage end-to-end technical evaluations by scoping use cases, defining success criteria, and building project plans.
  • Identify and cultivate technical champions within multi-stakeholder environments to influence the deal cycle.
  • Provide field feedback to product and engineering teams to influence the company's product roadmap.
  • Resolve technical and organizational blockers by collaborating with internal Product, Support, and GTM teams.
  • Mentor peers and create reusable assets to scale knowledge across the regional team.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role in an enterprise environment.
  • Advanced background in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, and observability.
  • Ability to influence and adapt communication across technical, business, and executive audiences.
  • Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring peers or contributing to team enablement initiatives.
  • Demonstrated capability of utilizing AI tooling and scaling it.
  • Consultative, outcome-oriented approach to problem-solving and customer engagement.
  • Willingness to travel as needed to support customer engagements.

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