# Product Solutions Architect - FinOps

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Denver, Colorado, USA; New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $152,000-$202,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team at Datadog acts as a technical multiplier, partnering with Field teams on complex customer use cases and influencing product roadmaps.

As a Product Solutions Architect, you will focus on Datadog's Cloud Cost Management (CCM) suite, helping customers understand, allocate, and reduce cloud spend.

## Responsibilities

- Serve as the in-house subject matter expert for Datadog's Cloud Cost Management products

- Provide architectural guidance on capacity planning, comparing cloud service cost models, and balancing performance vs. cost trade-offs

- Guide customers on tokenomics and AI cost attribution across providers

- Help enterprise clients track real-time AI spend changes and set up cost anomaly monitoring

- Partner with Field teams to provide hands-on technical and architectural guidance to enterprise customers

- Create high-impact technical collateral, including reference architectures, technical guides, and documentation

- Act as a trusted advisor to Product Management, delivering actionable feedback informed by real-world field experience

## Requirements

- Strong engineering foundation with hands-on experience managing, allocating, or optimizing cloud spend

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and core observability concepts

- Deep understanding of cost models, performance characteristics, and capacity planning across various cloud services

- Experience with languages such as Python and/or SQL

- Comfortable operating in rapidly evolving, ambiguous technical domains

- Strong listening and consultative skills

## Nice to Have

- Successful track record with 5+ years experience working as a Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or FinOps practitioner

- Experience using Datadog and/or other observability tools

- Familiarity with FinOps Foundation practices and commitment management

- FinOps certification

## Benefits

- Best-in-breed onboarding

- Generous global benefits

- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program

- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

- An inclusive company culture

- Competitive salary and equity package, with variable compensation

- Reasonably estimated yearly salary: $152,000-$202,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- cloud cost management
- FinOps
- observability
- Python
- SQL

### Nice to have
- Datadog
- FinOps certification
- cloud financial optimization tools

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