Datadog
Senior Sales Engineer - Majors (UK/Nordics/Netherlands)
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Enterprise Sales Engineer
At Datadog, we value our office culture—the relationships and collaboration it fosters, and the creativity it inspires. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure Datadogs can create a balance that suits them.
About the Role
As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through:
- Sales presentations
- Product demonstrations
- Supporting technical evaluations (POVs)
Sales Engineers play a key role in:
- Qualifying and closing opportunities with customers and partners
- Adding insights to the product team to help prioritise features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with the Sales team to articulate Datadog’s value proposition, vision, and strategy to customers
- Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase, including:
- Communicating Datadog’s value based on activities
- Addressing any issues or concerns to successful resolution
- Technically close complex opportunities through:
- Deep competitive knowledge
- Advanced technical skill
- Strong credibility
- Deliver product and technical briefings/-presentations to potential clients
- Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input (wins and losses)
- Proactively engage and communicate with:
- Customers
- Datadog’s business/technical teams
- Provide product feedback and insights into the competitive landscape
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Who You Are
- Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that drive business value
- Able to build and execute successful evaluation plans with customers
- Strong written and oral communication skills—able to:
- Understand business benefits and value propositions
- Articulate technical advantages clearly
- Experienced in programming/scripting with proficiency in:
- Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET
- Minimum 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role
- Comfortable with:
- Up to 4 hours of travel per day (to and from client sites)
- Up to 45% business travel (auto, train, or air)
(Datadog is inclusive—we understand no one meets all criteria perfectly. If you’re passionate about technology and open to growth, apply anyway!)
Benefits & Growth Opportunities
- Best-in-class onboarding
- Generous global benefits
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy programs for networking
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) & Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, including:
- Product training
- Career pathing
- Inclusive culture with access to:
- Community Guilds
- Inclusion Talks
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About Datadog
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform in the AI era, offering:
- Unified visibility across applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security
- AI-powered issue detection to prevent customer-facing disruptions
- Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders
[For more insight, explore #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and our Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog
Datadog commits to equal employment opportunity for all, regardless of:
- Race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin
- Sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status
- Disability, gender identity, veteran status
- Or any other characteristic protected by law
We also consider qualified applicants based on legal requirements, including criminal history assessments.
(Our Careers Page aims for accessibility. For accommodations, please complete [this form](#].
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