Senior Sales Engineer - Italy

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · Italy · Remote · Enterprise Sales Engineering

This role is for a Senior Sales Engineer at Datadog, a company that provides an observability and security platform for the AI era. The Sales Engineer will provide technical expertise, support sales, and gather customer feedback for the product team. The role requires technical skills, customer engagement, and travel.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with the Sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
  2. Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. Communicate Datadog’s value based on activities and work with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion
  3. Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
  4. Deliver product and technical briefings / presentations to potential clients
  5. Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses

Skills

Required

  • minimum of 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role
  • strong written and oral communication skills
  • Experienced in programming/scripting with any of the following: Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET etc.
  • able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites
  • able to travel via auto, train or air up to 45% of the time

Nice to have

  • Passion for educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer