Sales Engineer III (Customer Success)

Datadog · Tokyo, Japan · Commercial & Mid-Market Sales Engineering · listed October 8, 2026

The shape of it

Seniority
Mid level
Where
Hybrid
Requirements listed
9
Length
700 words

In the posting’s own words

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 it asks for · 9

  • Minimum 2+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering
  • Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring, cloud architecture tools, and modern web development
  • Thrives in a high velocity environment demonstrating experience with juggling a high number of concurrent engagements of varied size and complexity
  • Enjoys collaborating and teaming with others
  • Comfortable and confident in delivering technical presentations/demos
  • Native-level Japanese proficiency (written and spoken) is required, as you will be communicating directly with customers in Japan.
  • Able to think creatively about a wide variety of challenges. You're going to find new things every day
  • Enjoys a hybrid office culture and spending time in-person at our Seoul office.
  • Able to travel up to 25% of the time

What the job covers

  • Partner with the sales and customer success teams 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 broad range of potential and existing clients
  • Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests
  • Help clients try and onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks.
  • Think creatively and help resolve the wide variety of technical challenges that may occur during the overall customer’s life cycle

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Datadog4×
  • Site reliability
Go to market
  • Customer success
Models & research
  • Evaluations

Words the posting leans on

  • customers7×
  • technical6×
  • product5×
  • sales5×
  • engineering3×
  • partners3×
  • value3×
  • build2×
  • challenges2×
  • clients2×
  • enjoys2×
  • feature2×
  • hybrid2×
  • life2×
  • meet2×
  • office culture2×

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