Commercial sales engineer at Datadog Bengaluru, running technical evaluations, demos and POCs for prospective customers.

This full-time Bengaluru role was posted on 27 October 2026. The listing describes sales engineers who help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners through sales presentations, product demonstrations and technical evaluations (POCs). The role also channels customer, competitor and partner input to the product team and helps resolve customer concerns. The listing asks for a minimum of 3+ years in sales engineering or solutions engineering along with DevOps/SRE or platform engineering background, and knowledge of DevOps monitoring or architecture tools.

About Datadog

Datadog sells a cloud observability and security platform: infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, logs, and related products, used by engineering teams to watch their systems in production.

Datadog hires in India across engineering and go-to-market roles. Its sales engineering listings describe work with customers on evaluations and proofs of concept. Learn more on Datadog's website.

The role in plain terms

The dual background requirement - sales engineering plus a DevOps/SRE or platform past - is the real filter: Datadog's buyers are engineers, so credibility with them is the product. The commercial segment means higher deal volume and shorter cycles than enterprise SE roles, which suits people who like variety over long strategic pursuits. The product-feedback responsibility is genuine leverage: SEs who understand the product roadmap shape it.

The team and the work

Per the listing, the work includes continual learning of new technology to build competitive knowledge, so expect the observability landscape - and Datadog's expanding product surface - to be part of your weekly reading. POC support means hands-on configuration work, not slideware only.

What the employer asks for

These requirements are quoted from the employer's listing, kept in their exact words so eligibility details are not distorted:

Minimum 3+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering
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 travel up to 25% of the time

Who this role suits

Sales or solutions engineers with 3+ years and hands-on DevOps, SRE or platform experience, comfortable demoing to technical buyers. Not for engineers without customer-facing appetite, or salespeople without the technical depth the listing requires.

Practical notes

For SE roles, expect a demo or mock discovery session in the interview loop. Prepare to explain a monitoring concept to a sceptical engineer and to handle an objection about a competitor.

Working at Datadog

Technical roles at Datadog range from the monitoring platform itself to customer-facing sales engineering, where the job is helping prospects evaluate and adopt the product.

How to apply

Apply directly on the employer's site: Commercial Sales Engineer at Datadog. We found this listing on the Greenhouse public job board (careers.datadoghq.com), where it was posted on 27 Oct 2026 and was still open when we checked on 30 Oct 2026. Before applying, re-read the employer's own description in full, since eligibility details, deadlines and process steps can change at any time and the employer's page is always the final word. Tailor your resume to the specific requirements above rather than sending a generic one: mirror the skills and tools the listing names where you genuinely have them. A short, specific note on why this team and this problem interest you goes further than a long generic cover letter. Never pay a fee to apply or interview; genuine employers, including this one, do not charge candidates.

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