Job brief: Senior Sales Engineer - AI Accounts

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• Listed on Datadog's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (2 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• The apply link opens careers.datadoghq.com, the address Datadog's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $149,000 to $198,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · California, USA, Remote · Remote - California
• Posted: 2026-09-29

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 7+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a comparable technical customer-facing role;

Conditions

• Willing to travel for multi-day onsites with customer engineering teams and for industry and research conferences

Main duties

• 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 downstre…
• 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 …
• Lead discovery inside flat, engineering-led organizations where influence sits with individual contributors rather than titles, and where there are no formal…
• Run full-scale POVs in production rather than controlled pilots: instrument real workloads at real scale, prove value against the customer's own success crit…
• Act as an extension of the customer’s engineering/observability team rather than an external operator - this requires judgment about which standard gates ser…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for sales jobs across the U.S.: $150k a year (772 listings, 60 employers). This listing is 16% higher.
• Across Datadog's 216 open listings, 52% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Datadog hires

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