# Senior Security Sales Engineer

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: Illinois, USA, Remote; Texas, USA, Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $149,000-$198,000 USD
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

## Responsibilities

- 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 influence 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

## Requirements

- 7+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role within an enterprise environment

- Skilled at influencing and adapting communication across technical, business, and executive audiences

- Advanced 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, 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

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- public cloud
- Kubernetes
- APM/tracing
- security
- developer experience
- observability
- AI tooling

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