[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Datadog logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/c1654fc7-221.jpg)](https://jobicy.com/company/datadog.md)[Datadog](https://jobicy.com/company/datadog.md) # Senior Sales Engineer – AI Accounts AI Summary Datadog is hiring a Senior Sales Engineer to act as the technical owner for a focused portfolio of high-growth AI laboratory accounts. The role combines consultative technical selling with hands-on production proof-of-value work across AI/ML infrastructure, observability, and distributed systems. The successful candidate will partner closely with account executives, customer engineers, product, and engineering teams to identify expansion opportunities and solve operational problems quickly. This is an early-stage specialist team where the hire will help establish repeatable engagement patterns for AI-focused customers.[Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/datadog.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUSD 149k–198k / yrDepartment[Sales](https://jobicy.com/categories/seller.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished14 Nov 2026Apply before14 Dec 2026Listing views36Application actions1Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. Opportunity details ## About this role. As a Senior Sales Engineer on [Datadog](https://jobicy.com/company/datadog.md)‘s AI Accounts team, you’ll serve as the technical lead for a small portfolio of the world’s leading AI labs — accounts that today represent a meaningful share of Datadog’s revenue and are growing faster than any cohort in our business. You’ll own the technical relationship end to end, work shoulder-to-shoulder with customer engineering teams in production, and help define how Datadog shows up for a cohort whose buying behavior looks nothing like traditional enterprise. This team was piloted earlier this year and is now being formalized. You’ll be joining early enough to shape the playbook rather than inherit one. What You’ll Do * Own the technical relationship across a small portfolio of AI labs, go deep on how each customer trains, serves, and scales their models (and/or the downstream products and platforms), and become the person their engineers call first * Partner with your AE to drive expansion inside accounts that grow unpredictably and fast: identify new workloads and teams as they spin up, and get in front of them before a need becomes a ticket * Lead discovery inside flat, engineering-led organizations where influence sits with individual contributors rather than titles, and where there are no formal scoping calls to rely on * Run full-scale POVs in production rather than controlled pilots: instrument real workloads at real scale, prove value against the customer’s own success criteria, and work through the operational realities of doing that safely * Act as an extension of the customer’s engineering/observability team rather than an external operator – this requires judgment about which standard gates serve the customer and which to break * Work Slack-native and asynchronously as the default, with the responsiveness and proactive posture these accounts expect: flag new features, bugs, and incidents before they ask * Bring product and engineering in early and often, and close the loop fast — leadership needs near-real-time signal from this cohort, and you’ll be a primary source of it * Deliver technical narratives that land with engineers who pay for capability first and rationalize cost second – savings is a downstream conversation, not an opener * Build reusable assets and patterns from each engagement so the next lab onboards faster than the last * Keep activity, deal progress, and customer context documented and current Who You Are * 7+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a comparable technical customer-facing role; equivalent depth gained inside an AI lab, AI infrastructure company, or ML platform team is equally welcome * Hands-on depth in the AI/ML infrastructure stack: GPU fleet management, distributed training, inference serving, model and agent evaluation, and the observability challenges specific to each * Strong foundation in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, APM and distributed tracing, and modern, agentic observability practice and usage patterns (i.e. MCP) * Comfortable in flat organizations – able to engage an IC and a founder in the same week and calibrate to both without reaching for hierarchy * Biased toward doing: you’d rather solve a customer’s problem and explain the shortcut afterward than ask permission first, and you have the judgment to know where that line sits * Thrive in ambiguity and unpredictable growth – scoping, timelines, and account trajectories will change under you, repeatedly * Actively coachable. The strongest people we hire ask for a dry run, take the feedback, and visibly change what they do on the next attempt * Persistent about access. Getting time with people operating at this pace is hard, and you treat that as an interesting problem rather than a demoralizing one * Demonstrated capability using AI tooling in your own workflow and scaling it to others — credibility with this cohort depends on being a practitioner, not an observer * Experience mentoring peers or contributing to team enablement * Willing to travel for multi-day onsites with customer engineering teams and for industry and research conferences Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. Benefits and Growth: * Best-in-breed onboarding * Generous global benefits * Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking * New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) * Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing * An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $149,000—$198,000 USD About Datadog: Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. 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This job listing has been manually reviewed by the Jobicy Trust & Safety Team for compliance with our posting guidelines, including verification of the company's legitimacy, accuracy of job details, clarity of remote work policy, and absence of misleading or fraudulent content. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThe position requires deep practical knowledge of AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and observability while managing technically sophisticated customers in fast-changing environments. It also demands independent judgment during production engagements and the ability to influence stakeholders without formal hierarchy. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$173,500US market range (per year)$160k–$230k0$253.00k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. Datadog explicitly states a yearly base-salary range of $149,000 to $198,000 USD, with a midpoint of $173,500. A reasonable estimated US market base-pay range for a senior sales engineer specializing in AI infrastructure and enterprise observability is $160,000 to $230,000 per year; variable compensation and equity may be additional. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Sales Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Sales%20Engineering.md)[Solutions Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Solutions%20Engineering.md)[AI/ML Infrastructure](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AIML%20Infrastructure.md)[GPU Fleet Management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=GPU%20Fleet%20Management.md)[Distributed Training](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20Training.md)[Inference Serving](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Inference%20Serving.md)[Kubernetes](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Kubernetes.md)[AWS](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AWS.md)[Azure](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Azure.md)[Google Cloud Platform](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Google%20Cloud%20Platform.md)[Application Performance Monitoring](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Application%20Performance%20Monitoring.md)[Distributed Tracing](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20Tracing.md)[Technical Discovery](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20Discovery.md)[Proof of Value](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Proof%20of%20Value.md)[Enterprise Account Expansion](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Enterprise%20Account%20Expansion.md) Sample interview questionsHow would you approach a production proof of value for an AI lab using a large GPU fleet?I would first align on the customer's operational and success criteria, such as training throughput, inference latency, GPU utilization, cost visibility, and incident response. I would instrument a representative production workload safely, establish baseline telemetry, and use findings to demonstrate measurable improvements while documenting risks and rollout decisions. Describe how you would discover expansion opportunities in a fast-growing engineering-led account. I would maintain close technical relationships with practitioners, monitor organizational and workload changes, and use product usage signals to identify new teams or infrastructure needs. I would validate each opportunity through targeted discovery, connect it to a concrete operational problem, and coordinate with the account executive on an appropriate engagement plan. How do distributed tracing and APM help AI platform teams? They provide end-to-end visibility across services, model-serving layers, data dependencies, queues, and infrastructure. This helps teams isolate latency, errors, resource contention, and reliability issues across complex training and inference workflows rather than troubleshooting each component in isolation. How do you adapt your communication for an individual contributor versus a founder or executive sponsor? With individual contributors, I focus on technical architecture, implementation details, and immediate operational outcomes. With founders or executives, I summarize risk, velocity, capability, and strategic impact, while retaining enough technical credibility to support informed decisions. Tell us how you handle ambiguous customer requirements and changing priorities. I clarify the customer outcome, identify assumptions and constraints, and propose a small set of actionable next steps instead of waiting for perfect information. I communicate trade-offs early, keep documentation current, and continuously revise the plan as new technical or business signals emerge. Next step ## Apply now. 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