Partner Solutions Architect (GSI) - AMER West

Datadog's technical solutions team enables worldwide growth by educating clients and ensuring customer success. The Partner Solutions Architect (PSA) works closely with the Director of Partner Solutions Architects and is aligned to the Channels & Alliances business segment. The PSA supports technical initiatives for partners (e.g., cloud migration, application modernization, DevOps transformation), is accountable for outcomes, and collaborates with Datadog and partner resources. This is a trusted technical advisor role for the partner channel.

• Ensure successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources.
• Participate in joint business planning and review sessions to align Datadog and partner technical teams.
• Collaborate internally to support partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations, proofs of value, and enablement workshops.
• Advocate for partners' technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues) with internal teams.
• Analyze partner service offerings and recommend enhancements through greater adoption of Datadog features.
• Collaborate with product management, engineering, and technical services to prioritize new features.
• Help curate and evolve best practices for Datadog platform adoption.

• Solid technical grounding with hands-on experience in IT Development and/or Operations.
• Demonstrable track record and passion for learning; typically 10-15 years in a customer/partner-facing technical role.
• Self-starter with business acumen; ability to articulate Datadog value from server room to boardroom.
• Confident presentation skills.
• Desired hands-on experience in two or more of: Observability (Datadog, Splunk, AppD, New Relic, Dynatrace), Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba), Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Cloud Foundry), Dev/Scripting (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go), Config Mgmt (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab).
• Bonus: Previous experience in a technical role supporting channel partners, using Datadog or other cloud monitoring tools, or with root-cause analysis and debugging.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role is $149,000—$199,000 USD. Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, including variable compensation. Benefits include healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. Additional benefits include new hire stock equity (RSUs), employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.

Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace. This role is based in Denver, Colorado, USA or San Francisco, California, USA.

Apply via the Datadog careers page for this role.