Connect customer needs with engineering capabilities by qualifying mission requirements, shaping payload solutions, leading technical pre-sales, developing proposals, and turning market feedback into commercial and product insights.
Commercial Sales Engineer
๐ Description
- Deliver product and technical presentations and demonstrations to potential customers.
- Support technical evaluations and think through challenges across the pre-sales lifecycle.
- Collaborate with the product team on customer-driven feature requests.
- Help customers onboard and resolve roadblocks; coordinate with teams to address concerns and escalate bugs.
- Build technical skills and competitive knowledge by continually learning new technologies.
๐ ๏ธ Requirements
- Minimum 3+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering
- 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 travel up to 25% of the time
โจ Benefits
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global benefits, including fitness subsidy, home office benefits and mental health support.
- India-specific benefits, including medical insurance for employees + dependents and health check-ups.
- Family-specific benefits, including parental leave, child care subsidy and family-formation 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
- An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
- Partner with sales to communicate the productโs value proposition, vision, and strategy.
Full job description
Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners. You will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). Sales Engineers have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, weโd love to meet you!
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 Youโll 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:
- Minimum 3+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering
- 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 travel up to 25% of the time
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 youโre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global benefits, including fitness subsidy, home office benefits and mental health support.
- India-specific benefits, including medical insurance for employees + dependents and health check-ups.
- Family-specific benefits, including parental leave, child care subsidy and family-formation 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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