Full-Time

Commercial Sales Engineer

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Datadog

Datadog

5,001-10,000 employees

Cloud monitoring and analytics solutions provider

Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software

Compensation Overview

$80k - $106kAnnually

+ Variable Compensation

Entry, Junior, Mid

Boston, MA, USA

Hybrid workplace.

Category
Sales Engineering
Sales & Solution Engineering
Required Skills
Development Operations (DevOps)
Linux/Unix
Requirements
  • 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 challenges. You're going to find new things every day.
  • Previously experienced in systems administrations: Windows or Linux.
  • Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites.
  • Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 25% of the time.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with the sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers.
  • Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility.
  • Deliver product and technical presentations with potential clients.
  • Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests.
  • Help clients onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks.
  • Think creatively about a wide variety of technical challenges during the pre-sales life cycle.

Datadog provides tools for monitoring and managing IT infrastructure in the cloud. Their services help organizations across various industries, such as finance, healthcare, and technology, to ensure their IT systems run smoothly. Datadog's products include application performance monitoring, security monitoring, network monitoring, and log management, among others. These tools work by collecting data from different parts of an organization's IT environment, allowing users to analyze performance, detect issues, and optimize operations in real-time. Unlike many competitors, Datadog offers a wide range of features that cater to specific needs like cloud migration and IoT monitoring, all under a subscription-based model. Their goal is to help businesses maintain efficient and secure IT operations by providing comprehensive monitoring solutions.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$143.9M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2010

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

10%

1 year growth

36%

2 year growth

54%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Increased demand for cloud-native solutions boosts Datadog's growth potential.
  • The rise of edge computing creates new opportunities for Datadog's observability solutions.
  • Growing emphasis on cybersecurity aligns with Datadog's expansion into security analytics.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from platforms like New Relic and Splunk threatens market share.
  • Potential over-reliance on AWS could pose risks if AWS develops competing solutions.
  • Economic downturns may impact IT budgets, affecting subscription renewals and acquisitions.

What makes Datadog unique

  • Datadog offers comprehensive monitoring across servers, containers, and databases.
  • The platform integrates security analytics with monitoring, enhancing cybersecurity capabilities.
  • Datadog's Kubernetes Active Remediation provides end-to-end management of Kubernetes environments.

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