# Senior Sales Engineer

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** Paris, France
**Role:** Sales Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Apm, Tracing, Application Security, Developer Experience, Observability, Technical Presentations
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> The Sales Engineer partners with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, demonstrations, workshops, and evaluations for enterprise customers. The role requires 5+ years in sales or solutions engineering, strong consultative communication, and expertise in cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and related technologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Executives to own the technical strategy across enterprise sales opportunities.
- Lead customer discovery and translate technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria into tailored Datadog solutions.
- Deliver product demonstrations, technical presentations, and workshops.
- Project-manage technical evaluations end to end, including use-case scoping, requirements, success criteria, timelines, and accountability.
- Identify and cultivate technical champions within customer accounts.
- Participate in product and engineering feedback sessions as the technical voice of the customer.
- Maintain accurate activity, deal-progress, and customer-interaction records in related systems.
- Collaborate with Product, Support, and go-to-market teams to resolve technical blockers.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role in an enterprise environment.
- Experience navigating multi-stakeholder environments and communicating with technical, business, and executive audiences.
- Proficiency with public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, APM and tracing, security, developer experience, and observability.
- Strong communication and consultative problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple opportunities and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Growth mindset and willingness to use AI tools.
- Willingness to travel as needed for customer engagements.

## Benefits
- Best-in-breed onboarding.
- Generous global benefits.
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program.
- New-hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
- Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks.

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