Senior Sales Engineer - FED

Datadog; Columbia (AL); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onboarding program

Global benefits

Mentor program

RSU equity

ESPP

Professional development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a Senior Federal Enterprise Sales Engineer to serve as a trusted technical advisor to federal customers and Sales.

You will lead the technical strategy across hybrid, on-premises, and public cloud environments and own the evaluation experience from discovery through decision. You will coordinate with systems integrators, resellers, and partners to address security, compliance, acquisition, and deployment requirements while setting accurate expectations about capabilities

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Sales Engineering or technical customer-facing role in enterprise environments.
• Experience leading complex federal sales cycles with agency stakeholders and partners.
• Strong ability to influence across technical, business, and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy across opportunities from discovery to close.
• Lead technical evaluations, RFIs/RFPs, and architecture reviews with internal teams and partners.
• Deliver demos, workshops, and presentations linking Datadog platform to customer outcomes.
• Coordinate across Product, Support, and GTM to ensure accurate deployment assumptions and milestones.
• Mentor peers and contribute to team enablement, scaling knowledge regionally.

Skills

FederalSales

Enterprise sales engineering

Cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP)

Kubernetes

APM/Tracing

Security & Compliance

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

AI tooling adoption

Travel willingness

Tools

N/A

Job description

As a Senior Federal Enterprise Sales Engineer, you'll be a trusted technical advisor to federal customers and Sales. You'll help agencies connect mission priorities, modernization programs, and operational risks to technical solutions. You'll lead complex evaluations in regulated environments and shape the technical strategy for opportunities across hybrid, on-premises, and public cloud environments.

You'll own the technical evaluation experience from discovery through decision. You'll influence agency stakeholders and coordinate with systems integrators, resellers, and technology partners. You'll help customers and account teams address security, compliance, acquisition, and deployment requirements while setting accurate expectations about capabilities, prerequisites, and solution design.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You'll Do:

• Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won
• Lead discovery throughout the sales cycle to uncover technical challenges, mission and business goals, decision criteria, and success measures, then shape solution strategy and measurable business outcomes within applicable security, compliance, acquisition, and deployment requirements
• Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives
• Own the technical strategy and response quality for RFIs, RFPs, proposal responses, and architecture reviews. Coordinate internal teams and partners to keep claims, dependencies, and deployment assumptions accurate and appropriately scoped
• Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, aligning agency and partner stakeholders, building a project plan with clear timelines and decision points, surfacing risks and dependencies, 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

Who You Are:

• 7+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a technical customer-facing role within an enterprise environment
• Experience leading complex federal sales cycles and technical evaluations involving agency stakeholders, systems integrators, resellers, and technology partners
• Skilled at influencing and adapting communication across technical, business, and executive audiences
• Advanced background in hybrid environments and public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM/tracing, security, developer experience, and 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

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay.

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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

#LI-Hybrid

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$149,000-$198,000 USD

About Datadog:

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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