Senior Sales Engineer - Key Accounts

As a Key Accounts Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. 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 o [... source excerpt omitted ...] h 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 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 purchas [... source excerpt omitted ...] #LI-Remote Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $149,000—$198,000 USD About Datadog: Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the