# Senior Sales Engineer - AI Accounts at Datadog

- Company: Datadog
- What the company does: See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free. Backed by Index, CRV and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://datadoghq.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: California, USA, Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8238455/?gh_jid=8238455&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/datadog-senior-sales-engineer-key-accounts/

## About the role

As a Senior Sales Engineer on Datadog'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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Enterprise Sales Engineering

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