Commercial & Mid-market Sales Engineer

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · Commercial & Mid-Market Sales Engineering

Datadog is seeking a Commercial & Mid-Market Sales Engineer in Bangalore to help qualify and close opportunities by providing technical expertise, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations. The role involves partnering with the sales team, delivering technical presentations, collaborating with the product team on feature requests, and assisting clients with onboarding and technical challenges during the pre-sales cycle. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in Sales Engineering or Solutions Engineering, with a background in DevOps/SRE or Platform Engineering, and knowledge of DevOps monitoring or architecture tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with the sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
  2. Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
  3. Deliver product and technical presentations with potential clients
  4. Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests
  5. Help clients onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks.

Skills

Required

  • Sales Engineering
  • Solutions Engineering
  • DevOps/SRE
  • Platform Engineering
  • DevOps monitoring tools
  • DevOps architecture tools
  • Technical presentations
  • Technical demonstrations
  • Systems administration (Windows or Linux)

Nice to have

  • Customer onboarding
  • Pre-sales technical challenges

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 4+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering
  • Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring or architecture tools.
  • Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos to either external customers or internal teams
  • Able to think creatively about a wide variety of technical challenges. You're going to find new things every day
  • Previously experienced in systems administrations: Windows or Linux
  • Able to travel up to 25% of the time