Technical Director Jobs

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. We share our technical and product expertise with customers via multi-channel technical support, demos, and presentations. You’ll be joining a team and company where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog. 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: Manage, develop, coach and mentor a team of Premier Support Engineers who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 600+ integrations Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - partnering closely with upper management to facilitate performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports Ensure successful training and onboarding of new hires Guide the team through technical-training, certificates and additional learning and development needs Build out documentation and knowledge base articles for a variety of technologies Drive projects or initiatives to improve team productivity, process or procedure Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary Who You Are: Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineeri

Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners. You will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). Sales Engineers have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. 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 the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Deliver product and technical presentations with potential clients Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests Help clients onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks. Think creatively about a wide variety of technical challenges during the pre-sales life cycle Who You Are: Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring or architecture tools. Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos to either external customers or internal teams Able to think creatively about a wide variety of challenges. You're going to find new things every day Previously experienced in systems administrations: Windows or Linux Able to sit up to 4 hours, 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

As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documen

As a Senior Enterprise Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to both customers and Sales. You’ll lead complex technical evaluations, align solutions to business outcomes, and help shape deal strategy in high-impact opportunities. This role goes beyond delivering demos - you’ll own the evaluation experience end-to-end, influence key stakeholders, and help drive successful outcomes across enterprise accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions and measurable business outcomes Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and solution workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes for diverse stakeholder audiences including executives Full ownership of the technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining competitive success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify, develop, and leverage technical champions across multi-stakeholder environments, building a structured plan for champion cultivation and influence throughout the deal cycle Contribute to product direction through active participation in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, bringing field insights and customer patterns to PM and engineering teams Drive operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documen

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 losses Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering Experienced in programming/scripting with one or more languages (i.e. Python, Go, Java, etc.) and familiarity with DevOps practices such as CI/CD and IaC workflows Demonstrated ability to land into net new logo accounts and collaborate with prospects through long, multi-quarte

About the role: Datadog is building a product-led Competitive Intelligence function to help inform product strategy, roadmap prioritization, positioning, and competitive readiness. As the Head of Competitive Intelligence you will build and lead the CompIntel function across priority competitors and adjacent market opportunities. You will translate competitor product evolution, technical capabilities, launches, pricing value, customer sentiment, analyst narratives, and ecosystem shifts into actionable insights for Product, GTM, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Advocacy, and leadership. In this highly technical, hands-on leadership role, you should understand how observability products are implemented, where workflows differ, what technical claims are credible, and how product gaps translate into customer impact. What You'll Do: Own the recurring competitive radar for Datadog’s priority competitor set, including taxonomy, source standards, evidence quality, and update cadence. Produce competitive deep dives, feature-gap analyses, early-warning briefs, and opportunity assessments tied to specific product domains and leadership questions. Translate CompIntel findings into roadmap recommendations, product differentiation hypotheses, and Product-facing decision guidance. Build and maintain a central CompIntel repository with competitor profiles, source notes, comparison frameworks, evidence logs, and decision-ready briefs. Convert validated findings into GTM-ready handoffs for battlecards, objection handling, strategic deal narratives, and field enablement. Synthesize signals from Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, field teams, technical communities, Advocacy programs, win/loss, customer feedback, analyst research, public competitor materials, and CABs. Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions, identify decision criteria, and connect findings to roadmap and prioritization discussions. Partner with Tec

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions (TS) team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. Field CTOs are part of the broader Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) organization, serving as technical multipliers and trusted advisors to our customers' most senior decision makers and key executive stakeholders. They align customer ambitions with Datadog’s technology roadmap, enabling digital transformation while driving sustained growth for both our customers and Datadog. As Datadog continues to scale, we are creating a Field CTO role to lead our GTM technical strategy for the entire Japan region - establishing thought leadership, building the long-term strategic case for Datadog, and expanding our footprint in the market. 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: C-Level : Strategically guide CIO/CTO/CEO/CISO-level customer and prospect executives in rationalizing their adoption journey, investment and operationalizing of observability. GTM : Identifies industry specific trends and their impact and potential during Customers engagements, feeding the top-of-funnel for Product, GTM, BVA and Architecture teams. Co-create industry solutions via collaboration with Product SAs and Product Management. Leadership : Demonstrate Datadog's platform as well as thought leadership in Observability and Security, emphasizing our advanced solutions, industry best practices, and dedication to providing organizations with superior visibility and management of their at scale environments. Advisory : Be a trusted advisor to Sales leaders as well as customer and prospect executives on ROI, value realization and white-space analysis. Assist with opp

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. We share our technical and product expertise with customers via multi-channel technical support. You’ll be joining a team and company where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog. 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: Manage, develop, coach and mentor a team of TSEs who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 600+ integrations Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - partnering closely with upper management to facilitate performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports Ensure successful training and onboarding of new hires Guide the team through technical-training, certifications and additional learning and development needs Build out documentation and knowledge base articles for a variety of technologies Drive projects or initiatives to improve team productivity, process, or procedure Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary Who You Are: Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach and uses data to make informed decisions A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engine

Field CTOはDatadogの社内プロダクトエキスパートとして、Technical Solutions（TS）チームを通じて、見込み顧客への提案活動および既存顧客の成功支援を行い、Datadogのグローバルな成長を支えています。 Field CTOは、Product Solutions Architecture（PSA）組織の一員として、技術的な知見をもとにお客様の経営層や意思決定者に対する信頼できるアドバイザーとして活動します。お客様のビジネス目標とDatadogのプロダクト戦略を結びつけ、デジタルトランスフォーメーションの推進と、双方にとっての持続的な成長の実現に貢献します。 Datadogのさらなる事業拡大に伴い、日本市場全体のGo-To-Market（GTM）における技術戦略をリードするField CTOポジションを新設します。本ポジションでは、業界におけるリーダーシップの確立（対外発信・エバンジェリズム）、中長期的な戦略的価値提案の推進、ならびに市場におけるプレゼンスの拡大を担っていただきます。 Datadogでは、オフィスカルチャーを大切にしています。オフィスで築かれる人間関係やコラボレーション、そしてそこから生まれる創造性に価値を置いています。当社はハイブリッドワーク体制を採用しており、Datadogの社員一人ひとりが自分に最適なワークライフバランスを実現できるようにしています。 What You’ll Do: C-Level: CIO／CTO／CEO／CISOレベルの顧客および見込み顧客のエグゼクティブに対し、戦略的なアドバイザーとして、オブザーバビリティの導入プロセス、投資判断、運用定着に至るまでを戦略的に支援する。 GTM: 顧客とのエンゲージメントを通じて、業界特有のトレンドやその影響・可能性を特定し、Product、GTM、BVA、Architectureチームに対してトップ・オブ・ファネル創出に貢献します。Product SAおよびProduct Managementと連携し、業界向けソリューションを共同で創出します。 Leadership: Datadogプラットフォームの価値を体現するとともに、オブザーバビリティおよびセキュリティ分野におけるソートリーダーシップを発揮します。高度なソリューション、業界のベストプラクティス、大規模環境における優れた可視性と管理を提供する当社の取り組みを強調します。 Advisory: ROI（投資対効果）、価値実現、ホワイトスペース分析に関して、Salesリーダーおよび顧客・見込み顧客のエグゼクティブにとって信頼できるアドバイザーとなります。専門とする業界領域において、個別顧客の案件戦略および導入戦略を支援します。 Collaboration: Product Solutions Architecture（PSA）、Sales、Sales Engineering、Marketingと連携し、実務担当者および経済的意思決定者を含む幅広いオーディエンスに対して、質の高い技術的支援を提供する。 Presentations: 戦略的顧客のニーズにDatadogがどのように応えるかを示すため、アーキテクチャおよびデザインに関するエンゲージメントを主導します。また、DatadogのExecutive Briefing Center（EBC）において、著名な顧客や見込み顧客とともに、全体アーキテクチャ、オブザーバビリティのベストプラクティス、業界トレンドに関するエグゼクティブ向けブリーフィングに参加します。 Hiring: Product Solutions ArchitectureおよびField CTOチームにおける優秀な人材の採用活動において、リーダーシップを支援します。 Who You Are 業界経験: エンタープライズアーキテクチャ、または大規模なアプリケーションアーキテクチャ分野で15年以上の豊富な経験を有し、実際のユースケースに基づいてアーキテクチャを設計・適用できる能力を持つこと。加えて、日本市場の顧客におけるオブザーバビリティ領域、クラウド、および技術変革に関する深い知見を有すること。 戦略的思考力: 多様な技術的およびビジネス上の課題に対して、長期的かつ創造的に思考できる能力。 ステークホルダーマネジメント: 大規模エンタープライズ組織において、VP以上およびCレベルの主要ステークホルダーと対話し、影響力を発揮してきた経験。 テクノロジスト: 高い技術力を備えたハンズオン型のリーダーとして、組織内のあらゆる階層と信頼関係を構築できる方。 プレゼンテーション能力: 多数の参加者を前にした顧客向けプレゼンテーションに優れ、複雑な技術的詳細の説明から、エグゼ

The Team We are Datadog’s in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions team enables Datadog’s worldwide growth by educating potential partners and ensuring that our integration ecosystem is high-performing, secure, and valuable. Partner Technology Solutions Engineers (TSEs) are the technical bridge between Datadog and our third-party developer community. We act as consultants, helping partners build world-class monitoring solutions on the Integration Developer Platform (IDP) . The Opportunity Datadog is looking for a Partner Technology Solutions Engineer to join our fast-paced team. You will be the primary technical contact for our partners, guiding them through the entire integration lifecycle—from initial architectural design to final publication on the Datadog Marketplace. This is a unique role that combines deep technical troubleshooting with high-level consulting and platform advocacy. You will work directly with external developers and see your contributions immediately reflected in the Datadog ecosystem. You Will Act as the technical lead for partners, advising on OAuth flows, log pipelines, OpenTelemetry, and agent-based vs. API-based configurations Perform architectural assessments and deep-dive code reviews for partner integrations in the integrations-extras and marketplace repositories, ensuring they meet our Quality Rubric Solve complex technical challenges for partners via Zendesk, Slack, and dedicated technical consultations Identify friction points in our Integration Developer Platform (IDP) and partner with our internal Product and Engineering teams to build a better developer experience Maintain public-facing developer documentation and internal tracking systems ( JIRA ) to ensure transparency and scale You Are A technical expert with 3+ years of experience in a technical role (Support Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Software Development) Proficient in at least one language (Python or Go preferred) An observability enthusiast who unders

As a Mid-Market 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. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. 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 and partners to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Assist with technical discovery on key accounts and opportunities Deliver tailored product and technical presentations with potential clients Help clients evaluate the platform and assist when they run into roadblocks. Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. This entails communicating datadog’s value throughout an evaluation and working with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Someone with a minimum of 3 years experience in a Sales Engineering role Previous Observability experience Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral

As a Mid-Market 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. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. 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 the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Assist with technical discovery on key accounts and opportunities Deliver tailored product and technical presentations with potential clients Help clients evaluate the platform and assist when they run into roadblocks. Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. This entails communicating datadog’s value throughout an evaluation and working with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Someone with a minimum of 1.5 years experience in a Sales Engineering role Previous Observability experience Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral communicati

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. We share our technical and product expertise with customers via multi-channel technical support, demos, and presentations. You’ll be joining a team and company where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog. 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: Manage, develop, coach and mentor Premier Support Engineers who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 400+ integrations Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - managing performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports Partner with Support team senior leadership to oversee team projects and initiatives to improve productivity, process or procedure Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary Who You Are: Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team, including managing other managers Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach and uses data to make informed decisions A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineering Community (Meetups, etc.) 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

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 Product Solution Architecture team works closely with Datadog customers, Datadog’s Product management, engineering and Tech Solutions teams to help architect and implement the Datadog Solution. The team has grown to cover more than 12 Product Categories and needs a highly motivated, results-oriented individual to help lead the team. 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: Manage a team of expert individual contributors, working with Engineering and Product Management on their Product, who help create best practices for adoption of Datadog at scale. Assist in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the team. Mentor/coach new hires during on-boarding to ensure proper ramping of skills and capabilities Ensure that your team is aligned to top company initiatives and enabled to work with various Datadog internal and external stakeholders Deliver performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans Be a Trusted Advisor to Product Management by providing high quality feedback based on your field experience working closely with our Sales, Support, Partners and Customers Offer guidance on architecture choices, data collection, and best practices to large Enterprise customers as they adopt these Datadog services across the organization Participate in Executive Brief conversations with high profile customers and prospects about overall architecture, Observability Best Practices and industry trends Who You Are: 10+ years of experience solving complex problems for customers and a strong kno

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. We share our technical and product expertise with customers via multi-channel technical support, demos, and presentations. You’ll be joining a team and company where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog. 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: Manage, develop, coach and mentor Premier Support Engineers who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 400+ integrations Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - managing performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports Partner with Support team senior leadership to oversee team projects and initiatives to improve productivity, process or procedure Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary Who You Are: Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team, including managing other managers Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach and uses data to make informed decisions A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineering Community (Meetups, etc.) Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's ok