Partner Solutions Architect (GSI) - AMER West
Application analysis
Partner Solutions Architect (GSI) - AMER West at Datadog is a forward deployed observability platform role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Solutions / Sales Engineering role centers on technical discovery, demos, POCs, and helping buyers build internal consensus. Key signals from the listing: Senior scope.
About Datadog
Datadog forward deployed engineers help enterprises adopt monitoring, security, and observability at scale. The role is anchored in California, Remote, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Partner Solutions Architect (GSI) - AMER West
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Partner Solutions Architect (GSI) - AMER West to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Datadog hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Bring a tight demo narrative: customer pain, live workflow, and measurable before/after — treat the interview like a compressed POC.
- Show how you qualify opportunities and say no to bad-fit pilots; Datadog values technical judgment in customer-facing roles.
- This role is tied to California, Remote — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Datadog
- Demonstrate incident/debug fluency with a concrete example — Datadog will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate metrics and tracing literacy with a concrete example — Datadog will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Stand out with war stories where observability data directly changed customer reliability or cost.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on datadog.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. The Partner Solution Architect (PSA) is a Datadog expert who will work closely with Datadog’s Director of Partner Solutions Architects, and is aligned to our Channels & Alliances business segment. The PSA is responsible for supporting a variety of technical initiatives and activities for our partners (for example: cloud migration, application modernization, DevOps transformation). They are accountable for the outcome of these initiatives, and frequently collaborate with both Datadog and Partner resources to drive success. The PSA is a trusted technical advisor for our Partner channel. 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:
Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources; Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams; Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value; partner team enablement workshops; assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices; Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues, e.g.) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution;