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Sales Engineer - Enterprise

Datadog logoDatadog~$104k–$198k/yrtypicalTokyo, JapanListed 2mo ago

The posting

As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you'll partner with Sales to help customers understand the value of Datadog and how it solves their most important technical and business challenges. You'll lead technical evaluations, deliver compelling demos, and guide customers through the journey from discovery to successful adoption.

You'll act as a trusted advisor, bridging business goals with technical solutions, and play a key role in winning new business and expanding existing accounts.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do

  • Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won
  • Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions
  • Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes
  • Project manage technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process
  • Identify and cultivate technical champions within customer accounts, empowering them to advocate for Datadog adoption and drive consensus internally
  • Participate actively in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, serving as the technical voice of the customer to help shape product direction
  • Maintain operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documented and up to date in related systems
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Support, and GTM teams to address customer needs and resolve technical blockers

Who You Are:

  • 5+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role within an enterprise environment
  • Skilled at navigating multi-stakeholder environments and adapting communication style to technical, business, and executive audiences
  • Proficient background in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, observability
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to a range of audiences
  • A consultative approach to problem-solving and customer engagement
  • Ability to manage multiple opportunities and priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Growth mindset by embracing change and AI tools
  • Willingness to travel as needed to support customer engagements

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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About Datadog:

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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Taken from Datadog's own posting, last seen live on 30 Oct 2026.

About Datadog

Cloud monitoring, observability and security software, sold to engineering teams through commercial, mid-market and enterprise sellers.

Pay schedule: A yearly salary on Datadog's payroll, with variable pay on sales roles, new-hire RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan listed in its benefits.

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