# Commercial Sales Engineer (East)

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** Boston, MA
**Role:** Sales Engineering
**Salary:** $80k – $122k/yr
**Skills:** Datadog, DevOps, Linux, Windows, Systems Administration, Monitoring Tools
**Posted:** 2026-01-21

> Support sales team by delivering technical presentations, demos, and POCs for Datadog's monitoring platform. Requires DevOps knowledge, systems administration experience with Linux/Windows, and ability to travel up to 25%.

## 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
- Knowledgeable and experienced with **DevOps** monitoring or architecture tools.
- Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos to either external customers or internal teams
- Able to think creatively about a wide variety of challenges. You're going to find new things every day
- Previously experienced in systems administrations: **Windows** or **Linux**
- Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites
- Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 25% 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

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