# Senior Sales Engineer - Key Accounts

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** Illinois, Texas
**Role:** Sales Engineering
**Salary:** $149K-$198K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Java, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Sales Engineering, Observability, CRM
**Posted:** 2026-02-05

> Provides technical expertise to sales teams for key enterprise accounts, leading demos, evaluations, and closing complex deals for Fortune 100 prospects. Requires 3+ years in Sales Engineering or DevOps, programming skills (Python, Go, Java), and DevOps practices.

## Job Description

## 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

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