# Sales Engineer

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** Boston, MA
**Role:** Sales Engineering
**Salary:** $80k – $117k/yr
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** Technical Sales, Product Demos, Web Development, DevOps, Cloud Architecture, Technical Presentations, Onboarding Support
**Posted:** 2026-07-07

> Sales Engineer partnering with sales teams to deliver technical presentations, demos, and POCs for Datadog's observability platform. Requires 1+ years technical sales/post-sales experience, knowledge of web dev, DevOps, and cloud technologies, plus strong presentation and collaboration skills.

## Job Description

## What You’ll 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

## Who You Are
- Enjoys a hybrid office culture and spending time in-person at our Boston office
- Has at least one year of experience in a technical sales and/or post-sales role
- Has a working knowledge of modern web development, DevOps monitoring, and cloud architecture/technologies
- Enjoys collaborating and teaming with others
- Demonstrates strong written and oral communication skills
- Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos
- Can multi-task, manage time well, and be responsive to others
- Curious, eager to learn, and persistent in solving problems
- Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from events and client sites
- Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 15% of the time

## 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
- Competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan

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