Jobs at Datadog

Targets and closes new business with Fortune 100 and other strategic enterprise accounts. Develops outbound prospecting strategies, builds multi-threaded relationships, cross-sells product suites, negotiates enterprise contracts, demonstrates ROI, manages account growth, and maintains accurate forecasts. Requires enterprise SaaS or IT infrastructure sales experience, strong pipeline-generation skills, and regular travel to client sites.

The Strategic Account Executive handles sales for State, Local, and Education sectors, driving revenue and maintaining customer relationships.

Manage a team of 3–5 technical writers to create and maintain public product documentation (APIs, SDKs, developer and security tools). Partner with Product and Engineering, research via product experimentation and code review, interview SMEs, and improve documentation standards and processes with the community.

Lead technical sales efforts with Account Executives: conduct discovery, deliver demos and workshops, manage technical evaluations (POVs), cultivate technical champions, provide customer feedback to product teams, and ensure accurate deal documentation to drive adoption and expansion.

Drive adoption of Datadog security solutions in strategic enterprise accounts. Partner with sales teams to understand customer requirements, conduct technical demonstrations, support evaluations and proof-of-value initiatives, develop proposals, and provide technical expertise throughout the sales cycle. Maintain expertise in security products, vulnerabilities, cloud platforms, SIEM, SOC workflows, endpoint security, and application security. Relay customer feedback to product and engineering teams and participate in industry events with up to 30% travel.

Serve as a service-management subject matter expert, creating demos, presentations, documentation, webinars, blogs, research, and other technical content. Partner with engineering teams, coach communication, engage open-source communities, develop integrations, and provide product feedback. The role requires production operations experience, incident response and on-call expertise, familiarity with service-management tools, programming or scripting skills, cloud and container experience, and publicly available technical content.

Lead developer advocacy by creating technical content, open-source templates, and community engagement focused on AI-accelerated workflows, observability, and modern deployment platforms. Translate developer feedback into product insights and guide teams on balancing rapid prototyping with engineering best practices.

The Senior Sales Engineer will provide technical expertise to support sales activities, engage customers, and collaborate across teams to close opportunities in key accounts.

Lead technical strategy with Account Executives for enterprise deals: drive discovery, deliver demos and solution workshops, own proof-of-value evaluations end-to-end, cultivate technical champions, provide product feedback to engineering, resolve technical blockers, document deal progress, and mentor peers to scale regional enablement.