Partner Solution Architect at Datadog | Cloud Career in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
A High-Impact Role at a High-Growth Public Company
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is one of the most respected names in cloud observability and continues to grow rapidly. A Partner Solution Architect role here sits at the intersection of technical depth and business strategy — a rare and valuable combination that is highly marketable.
Compensation Context: No salary is listed, but PSA roles at Datadog in Europe typically range from €80,000–€130,000 base, depending on seniority and country, with meaningful RSU grants on top. This is competitive for EU tech markets, especially with the added equity upside from a company of Datadog's profile.
Skills You'll Build:
- Deep expertise in cloud observability (one of the hottest spaces in tech today)
- Partner ecosystem and channel sales technical acumen — rare and highly transferable
- Cross-functional influence skills (product, engineering, sales alignment)
- Hands-on breadth across Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and major public clouds
Green Flags: Structured career pathing, product training, mentorship programs, and a global team signal a mature, invested employer. Working with channel partners (SIs, MSPs) at a senior level positions you well for future roles as a Field CTO, Principal Architect, or Partner Director.
Watch For: The role spans onboarding, enablement, advocacy, and strategy — a broad mandate that could mean high expectations with limited scope clarity. Clarify OKRs and success metrics during interviews.
The Team:
We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers through demos, presentations, technical evaluations, and ongoing support. Technical solutions is a growing global team that collaborates constantly to share knowledge and continuously advance our technical skillset.
The Opportunity:
The Partner Solution Architect (PSA) is a Datadog expert who will work closely with Datadog's Director, Adoption Services, and is aligned to our Channels & Alliances business segment. The PSA is responsible for supporting a variety of technical initiatives and activities for our partners (for example: cloud migration, application modernization, DevOps transformation). They are accountable for the outcome of these initiatives, and frequently collaborate with both Datadog and Partner resources to drive success. The PSA is a trusted technical advisor for our Partner channel.
You Will:
- Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources;
- Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams;
- Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value; partner team enablement workshops; assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices;
- Advocate on behalf of Partners' technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues, etc.) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution;
- Analyze and understand Partner service offerings on a regular basis and provide recommendations to enhance the value of those services through greater or improved adoption of Datadog features and capabilities;
- Collaborate with Datadog's product management, engineering and technical services teams to help identify and prioritize new features and capabilities;
- Continuously help curate and evolve lead/best practices for Datadog platform adoption and success.
You Are:
- Possess a solid technical grounding with hands-on experience of IT Development and/or Operations;
- A demonstrable track-record and never-ending passion for learning;
- A self-starter, tech-savvy professional with solid business acumen; ability to articulate Datadog value from server room to boardroom;
- Confident presentation skills;
- Must be a current EU resident;
- Desired hands-on experience in two or more of the following areas:
- Observability: Datadog, Splunk, AppD, New Relic or Dynatrace
- Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, or 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 Points:
- Previous experience working in a technical role for or supporting channel partners (Systems Integrators, Managed Services Providers, etc.);
- Previous experience using Datadog and/or other cloud monitoring tools (APM, Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics, NPM);
- Previous experience with root-cause-analysis, troubleshooting, debugging.
Why You Should Apply:
- Generous and competitive global and US benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Best in breed onboarding
- Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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