As an 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 team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
• Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. Communicate Datadog’s value based on activities and work with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion
• Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
• Deliver product and technical briefings / presentations to potential clients
• 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 any of the following: Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET etc.
• Someone with a minimum of 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role
• Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites 
• Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 45% of the time

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.

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Infrastructure Engineer Summary:  

Tenstreet is a fast-growing, market-dominating SaaS-based solutions provider to the trucking industry. Tenstreet’s platform is hosted between its own hardware within a colocation facility and multiple cloud providers. Tenstreet’s Infrastructure team handles everything necessary to manage a highly scalable and secure environment, including specifying, purchasing, implementing, administering, securing, and monitoring hardware, software, and third-party services. This position is a hybrid role that will require trips to the corporate location in Tulsa, Oklahoma as well as days spent working in a co-working facility in NW Arkansas. 

Our infrastructure engineering team has broad expertise in on-prem and cloud architecture, performance, security, system administration, network administration and analysis, database administration, automation, incident response, troubleshooting, access control, and audit. 

A perfect fit for this Infrastructure Engineer position isn’t a person who already has deep experience with every specific tool and technology we use in our environment (some of which are mentioned below). 

Rather, our perfect fit is a person who has a demonstrated ability to learn, implement, and manage technologies that may be new to the person.  Further, this is a person who makes sound decisions and gets stuff done. The Infrastructure Engineer works within an established framework of standards and procedures but operates with tremendous autonomy and responsibility. 

As an Infrastructure Engineer you’ll be specifically responsible for: 

• On premises and cloud server and service administration, including the designing, building, monitoring, and securing of various Linux virtual servers and containers.
• Managing our NetApp storage tier and other file servers.
• Using tools such as Ansible Automation Platform to automate routine activities (server building and provisioning, administration activities, configuration management, etc.)
• Working with our development and product teams to ensure the infrastructure scales and meets the needs of the business
• Using monitoring and analysis tools such as Datadog and Wazuh IDS to collect and analyze system performance metrics for capacity planning, proactive response, and troubleshooting.
• The application and oversight of information security controls across various operating environments.
• Understanding and assisting in the management of our network infrastructure, including firewalls, switches, and third-party services such as Cloudflare for WAF/DDOS. 

More broadly, as an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be responsible for: 

• Building and supporting resilient and scalable systems that achieve high availability.
• Managing environmental and architectural changes with a mind to maximize the pace of implementation without compromising security or functionality.
• Identifying technological and procedural impediments to Tenstreet, devising solutions to improve the company’s effectiveness.
• Coherently communicating technical topics and concerns to a diverse assortment of internal and external audiences.
• Administration of a variety of applications and services for both internal and external users.
• Balancing the need to "keep things running" with allocating time to system enhancements and new strategic initiatives.
• Mentoring or training other team members and colleagues from other roles.
• Participating in on-call rotations.
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues (hardware/software/applications).   

You might be a good fit as an Infrastructure Engineer if you: 

• Have demonstrated the ability to learn new technologies that may or may not be related to what you already know.
• Make sound decisions and work well both autonomously and with a team. 
• Have at least 3-5 years’ experience in Linux systems administration, especially coming from a DevOps-oriented background.
• Have experience with an assortment of common applications and protocols, such as Apache, MySQL, NFS, Squid, Redis, Docker, DHCP, SSH, DNS, LDAP, SMTP, etc. 
• Have some software development and scripting experience, preferably using common interpreted languages (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Have a knack for problem solving, asking the right questions and gathering the right data to take appropriate action.
• Have experience with configuration management and automation tools (Ansible preferred).
• Have a thorough understanding of networking concepts (OSI model, NAT, VLANs, packet filtering, application proxies, etc.)
• Are comfortable working alone when necessary, hunting down answers, thinking critically and solving problems.
• Play well with others and have learned to collaborate, disagree, compromise, and build new things with a team.
• Can juggle multiple projects with competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. 
• Can communicate well and can walk others through complex processes and problems easily and naturally. This includes both written and verbal communications.
• Jump at the chance to deploy automated solutions to eliminate toil. 

What we’ll provide you:    

• A great compensation plan  
• A positive and generative work environment enabling you to develop your skills, collaborate with other professionals and invest in others.   
• A work community that strives to take great care of you through great benefits like health insurance, dental, vision, 401k, PTO and others.