# Partner Solutions Architect

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $143k – $209k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Python, JavaScript, Jenkins
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Partner Solutions Architect supporting GSI partners across AMER West. Enables partner technical teams through onboarding, training, joint planning, and technical initiatives while advocating partner needs internally.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources
- Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams
- Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value; partner team enablement workshops; assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices
- Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution
- Analyze and understand Partner service offerings on a regular basis and provide recommendations to enhance the value of those services through greater or improved adoption of Datadog features and capabilities
- Collaborate with Datadog’s product management, engineering and technical services teams to help identify and prioritize new features and capabilities
- Continuously help curate and evolve lead/best practices for Datadog platform adoption and success

## Who You Are
- Possess a solid technical grounding with hands-on experience of IT Development and/or Operations
- Has a demonstrable track-record and never-ending passion for learning; successful candidates for this position typically have 10-15 years of experience in a customer or partner facing technical role
- A self-starter, tech-savvy professional with solid business acumen; ability to articulate Datadog value from server room to boardroom
- Confident presentation skills

## Desired Experience
- Hands-on experience in two or more of the following areas:
  - Observability: Datadog, Splunk, AppD, New Relic or Dynatrace
  - Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, or Alibaba
  - Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry
  - Dev/Scripting: Python, Javascript, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go
  - Config Mgmt: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
  - CI / CD: Jenkins, Gitlab

## Bonus Points
- Previous experience working in a technical role for or supporting channel partners (Systems Integrators, Managed Services Providers)
- Previous experience using Datadog and/or other cloud monitoring tools (APM, Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics, NPM)
- Previous experience with root-cause-analysis, troubleshooting, debugging

## Benefits and Growth
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global 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
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan

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