Senior Sales Engineer - Key Accounts

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with the Sales, Product/Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and executive leadership to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
• Lead technical strategy for both short-term and long-cycle pursuits by driving the end-to-end technical sales agenda for Fortune 100 and comparable prospects — from pipeline generation through purchase decision
• Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
• Present at executive and technical forums, lead workshops, and translate technical detail to business impact for CIOs, SRE/Platform teams, security/compliance, and engineering leadership
• Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses
• Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape

Who You Are:

• Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer
• Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering
• Experienced in programming/scripting with one or more languages (i.e. Python, Go, Java, etc.) and familiarity with DevOps practices such as CI/CD and IaC workflows
• Demonstrated ability to land into net new logo accounts and collaborate with prospects through long, multi-quarter or multi-year cycles.
• Someone with a minimum of 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role
• Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites
• Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 45% 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