Technical Solutions Engineer Jobs at Datadog with Visa Sponsorship
Technical Solutions Engineer jobs at Datadog sit at the intersection of deep product knowledge and customer-facing technical work, requiring strong cloud monitoring, observability, and scripting skills. Datadog has a consistent track record of sponsoring work visas for this function, supporting candidates across multiple visa categories from OPT through permanent residence.
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Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners by providing technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). As a Commercial Sales Engineer 2, you will independently own technical engagements throughout the sales cycle, partnering closely with Account Executives to align customer business objectives with Datadog's platform. You will also collaborate across Engineering, Support, Product, and Customer Success to resolve customer concerns, advocate for customer needs, and serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the evaluation process.
If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we'd love to meet you!
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:
- Partner with the sales team to articulate Datadog's value proposition, vision, and technical strategy throughout the sales cycle.
- Deliver tailored product demonstrations and technical presentations that map customer challenges to Datadog solutions.
- Assist with technical discovery by identifying customer business objectives, technical challenges, and success criteria.
- Own technical evaluations (POCs) from kickoff through successful completion, proactively driving customer engagement and removing technical blockers.
- Continually expand your expertise across Datadog's platform while building competitive knowledge and technical credibility.
- Develop trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders while effectively communicating business value to broader buying teams.
- Contribute to team success by sharing best practices, mentoring newer Sales Engineers, and supporting enablement initiatives.
- Think creatively to solve a wide variety of technical challenges throughout the pre-sales lifecycle.
Who You Are:
- Ideally 1.5 years or greater as a Sales Engineer or in a comparable customer-facing technical role.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, modern application architectures, observability, and/or DevOps technologies.
- Comfortable independently leading technical presentations, product demonstrations, and evaluations.
- Able to translate technical capabilities into meaningful business outcomes for customers.
- Effective communicating with both technical practitioners (Developers, SREs, Platform Engineers, Operations teams) and business stakeholders.
- Comfortable navigating multiple customer stakeholders while managing several active evaluations simultaneously.
- Curious, adaptable, and eager to continually learn and expand technical expertise.
- Experience with modern infrastructure technologies, such as cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, networking, and/or operating systems.
- Able to sit for up to 4 hours while traveling to and from client sites.
- Able to travel via auto, train, or air up to 25% of the time.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet every qualification on day one—and that's okay. If you're passionate about technology and excited to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth
- Best-in-class onboarding
- Generous global benefits
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career growth opportunities
- An inclusive company culture with 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.
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. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
INTRODUCTION
Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners by providing technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). As a Commercial Sales Engineer 2, you will independently own technical engagements throughout the sales cycle, partnering closely with Account Executives to align customer business objectives with Datadog's platform. You will also collaborate across Engineering, Support, Product, and Customer Success to resolve customer concerns, advocate for customer needs, and serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the evaluation process.
If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we'd love to meet you!
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:
- Partner with the sales team to articulate Datadog's value proposition, vision, and technical strategy throughout the sales cycle.
- Deliver tailored product demonstrations and technical presentations that map customer challenges to Datadog solutions.
- Assist with technical discovery by identifying customer business objectives, technical challenges, and success criteria.
- Own technical evaluations (POCs) from kickoff through successful completion, proactively driving customer engagement and removing technical blockers.
- Continually expand your expertise across Datadog's platform while building competitive knowledge and technical credibility.
- Develop trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders while effectively communicating business value to broader buying teams.
- Contribute to team success by sharing best practices, mentoring newer Sales Engineers, and supporting enablement initiatives.
- Think creatively to solve a wide variety of technical challenges throughout the pre-sales lifecycle.
Who You Are:
- Ideally 1.5 years or greater as a Sales Engineer or in a comparable customer-facing technical role.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, modern application architectures, observability, and/or DevOps technologies.
- Comfortable independently leading technical presentations, product demonstrations, and evaluations.
- Able to translate technical capabilities into meaningful business outcomes for customers.
- Effective communicating with both technical practitioners (Developers, SREs, Platform Engineers, Operations teams) and business stakeholders.
- Comfortable navigating multiple customer stakeholders while managing several active evaluations simultaneously.
- Curious, adaptable, and eager to continually learn and expand technical expertise.
- Experience with modern infrastructure technologies, such as cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, networking, and/or operating systems.
- Able to sit for up to 4 hours while traveling to and from client sites.
- Able to travel via auto, train, or air up to 25% of the time.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet every qualification on day one—and that's okay. If you're passionate about technology and excited to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth
- Best-in-class onboarding
- Generous global benefits
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career growth opportunities
- An inclusive company culture with 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.
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. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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Build demonstrable observability skills before applying
Datadog's Technical Solutions Engineer interviews test hands-on knowledge of monitoring, APM, and log management. Certifications or portfolio projects using Datadog's own platform signal readiness and remove one layer of sponsor risk from a hiring manager's perspective.
Target roles matching your visa category's requirements
Datadog sponsors several visa types for this role, but not every open position qualifies for every category. Confirm the role meets specialty occupation criteria before applying, since Technical Solutions Engineer positions vary in technical depth and degree requirements across teams.
Align your resume to Datadog's technical stack explicitly
Hiring teams for Technical Solutions Engineers at Datadog filter heavily on cloud infrastructure experience, particularly AWS, Azure, and GCP integrations. Listing generic monitoring tools without specifying cloud environments is a common reason strong candidates get screened out early.
Clarify sponsorship intent before your final interview
Datadog has handled visa filings across H-1B, TN, and OPT pathways, but their immigration process starts at the offer stage. Raising your sponsorship needs after a verbal offer is extended is standard practice and avoids wasting either party's time.
Account for H-1B cap timing in your job search calendar
If you need H-1B sponsorship, USCIS registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. Plan your Datadog application timeline so an offer and I-129 filing can realistically align with the lottery window, especially if your OPT or grace period has a hard end date.
Use Migrate Mate to filter open roles by visa type
Datadog posts Technical Solutions Engineer openings regularly, but availability shifts by region and team quarter to quarter. Use Migrate Mate to filter current Datadog openings by the visa category you need, so you're only applying to roles actively open to sponsorship.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Datadog sponsor H-1B visas for Technical Solutions Engineers?
Yes, Datadog sponsors H-1B visas for Technical Solutions Engineer roles. The position typically qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring at minimum a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science, engineering, or information systems. Datadog's immigration process is handled at the offer stage, so you'll work through the details after receiving a formal offer rather than during the interview process.
Which visa types does Datadog commonly sponsor for Technical Solutions Engineer roles?
Datadog sponsors H-1B, H-1B1 visa, TN visa, and F-1 OPT and CPT for Technical Solutions Engineer positions, along with employment-based Green Card pathways including EB-2 and EB-3. TN visa is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying technical occupations. F-1 OPT candidates can typically start on their existing work authorization, with Datadog filing for H-1B sponsorship ahead of OPT expiration.
How do I apply for Technical Solutions Engineer jobs at Datadog?
Applications go through Datadog's careers portal, where Technical Solutions Engineer openings are listed by region and team. Before applying, confirm the role aligns with your background in cloud infrastructure, scripting languages like Python or Go, and customer-facing technical work. You can browse current Datadog openings filtered by visa type on Migrate Mate to identify roles actively open to sponsorship before submitting your application.
What qualifications does Datadog look for in Technical Solutions Engineer candidates?
Datadog expects Technical Solutions Engineer candidates to demonstrate practical experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with working knowledge of monitoring, observability, and APM concepts. Proficiency in at least one scripting language is consistently required. Customer-facing experience explaining complex technical systems to engineering or DevOps teams is weighted heavily, since the role is client-interfacing rather than purely internal.
How do I time my application if I'm on OPT and need H-1B sponsorship?
USCIS opens H-1B registration in March each year for an October 1 cap year start. If you're on F-1 OPT, you need to secure an offer and have your employer submit an H-1B registration before that window closes. STEM OPT extensions give you up to 36 months of work authorization, which provides more flexibility, but you should begin targeting roles at companies with active sponsorship programs, including Datadog, at least six months before your OPT expires.