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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Senior Sales Engineer - Majors (West)

Datadog California, USA, Remote Remote senior full-time

Salary

$149,000-$198,000 USD per year

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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.

What You'll Do:

  • Own the technical strategy across your accounts as a peer to the Account Executive
  • Own the technical explanation behind consumption movement in your accounts
  • Lead discovery in every meeting, not only in discovery meetings
  • Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, solution workshops, etc.
  • Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end
  • Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments
  • Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions
  • 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
  • Contribute to team enablement by mentoring peers, sharing best practices, and creating reusable assets that scale knowledge across the region

Who You Are:

  • 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
  • Experience displacing or consolidating away from an entrenched incumbent inside an account
  • A consultative, outcome-oriented approach to problem-solving and customer engagement
  • Demonstrated depth over breadth
  • 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

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