# Senior Sales Engineer - Key Accounts

- **Company:** Datadog
- **Location:** California, Remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07 00:00:00.000Z
- **Compensation:** $198k+
- **Apply:** https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/7516279/?gh_jid=7516279
- **Page:** https://forwardeployedjobs.com/jobs/datadog/senior-sales-engineer-key-accounts

## Description

As a Key Accounts Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. What You’ll Do: Partner with the Sales, Product/Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and executive leadership to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Lead technical strategy for both short-term and long-cycle pursuits by driving the end-to-end technical sales agenda for Fortune 100 and comparable prospects — from pipeline generation through purchase decision Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Present at executive and technical forums, lead workshops, and translate technical detail to business impact for CIOs, SRE/Platform teams, security/compliance, and engineering leadership Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and ...