Senior Sales Engineer - Majors (East)

As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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 and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influen [... source excerpt omitted ...] throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documented and up to date in related systems Identify and proactively resolve technical and organizational blockers by collaborating across Product, Support, and GTM teams before customers are impacted Contribute to team enablement by mentoring peers, sharing best practices, and creating reusable assets that scale knowledge across the region Who You [... source excerpt omitted ...] ervability Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to a range of audiences A consultative, outcome - oriented approach to problem-solving and customer engagement Demonstrated ability to manage multiple opportunities and priorities in a fast-paced environment Experience mentoring peers or contributing to team enablement initiatives Demonstrated capability of utilizing AI tooling and scaling it Growth mindset of embracing change and being curious 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