Senior Sales Engineer - Majors

Datadog

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Remote
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Remote
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$149,000–$198,000 / yr
Posted
29 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $180k
This role $174k
$130k most similar roles pay here $222k

This role pays more than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $146,500–$213,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $174k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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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 - Majors

As a Senior Sales Engineer - Majors (West), 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, leading customer discovery to uncover technical challenges and translating those needs into tailored solutions. Your daily responsibilities include delivering product demos, conducting solution workshops, managing proof of value projects, and identifying technical champions within multi-stakeholder environments. You will also contribute to product direction through field feedback sessions and mentor peers to share best practices. The role requires expertise in public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, and observability. You must possess a consultative approach to solving problems while utilizing AI tooling to scale technical outcomes across the enterprise landscape.

What you'll do

  • Lead the technical strategy for sales opportunities from initial prospecting through to closing.
  • Conduct customer discovery to translate technical challenges and business goals into tailored product solutions.
  • Deliver technical presentations, product demonstrations, and solution workshops for diverse stakeholder audiences.
  • Manage end-to-end technical evaluations by scoping use cases, defining success criteria, and managing project timelines.
  • 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 within an enterprise environment.
  • Advanced background in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, and observability.
  • Skilled at influencing and adapting communication across technical, business, and executive audiences.
  • Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to a range of audiences.
  • Experience mentoring peers or contributing to team enablement initiatives.
  • Demonstrated capability of utilizing AI tooling and scaling it.
  • Willingness to travel as needed to support customer engagements.

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