Lead Telemetry Pipeline Specialist

About the Role:

Dynatrace is seeking a high-impact Telemetry Pipeline Specialist to serve as the business and technical evangelist for the next generation of data-driven Observability. This is a specialist role focused on the intersection of Bindplane, OpenTelemetry (OTel), and Enterprise Data Governance. You will partner with our Global Sales and Customer Success teams to help organizations navigate the complexities of data explosion in hybrid and AI-native environments, ensuring they achieve high-signal observability while maintaining absolute control over their telemetry costs and routing.

Domain Expertise & Solution Leadership

• Act as a subject matter expert in log management and observability
• Stay current with OpenTelemetry, cloud logging, and pipelines
• Lead proof of concepts and demonstrate technical value

Competitive Strategy & Value Selling

• Execute competitive displacement strategies
• Build ROI and economic value cases
• Position Dynatrace effectively in enterprise environments

Technical Solution Guidance

• Advise on telemetry pipelines (OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Logstash)
• Support Kubernetes, serverless, and cloud ecosystems
• Optimize data routing and analytics strategies

Customer Adoption & Growth

• Drive platform adoption and usage
• Deliver best practices and technical workshops
• Improve consumption and customer outcomes

Collaboration & Pipeline Development

• Build pipeline through channels, events, and outbound
• Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, engineering, and marketing
• Maintain CRM accuracy and forecasting discipline

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Experience: 5+ years in sales or presales roles, with at least 3 years focused on log management, telemetry pipelines, or data streaming environments

Domain Expertise:

• Deep understanding of telemetry routing and edge processing (Bindplane, Fluent Bit, or similar)
• Familiarity with cloud-native ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes) and event streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)
• Sales Execution: Experience supporting complex enterprise sales cycles and influencing both technical and executive stakeholders; Ability to articulate “Data Gravity” and
• “Ingest Economics” and translate them into executive-level value (CIO/CFO)
• Competitive Knowledge: Familiarity with observability and pipeline competitors such as Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, or Cribl
• Enablement: Ability to scale impact through field enablement, play development, and technical evangelism
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Cribl LogStream or Splunk Heavy Forwarders for displacement strategies.
• Familiarity with FinOps principles (matching telemetry spend to business value).

• Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security.
• We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance.
• Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances.
• You'll get to work at the forefront of innovation with Dynatrace Intelligence—the industry's first agentic operations system. Bringing together deterministic and agentic AI, it helps teams understand what's happening, why it matters, and what to do next— automatically.
• Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace.

The base salary range for this role is $128,000 - $160,000. When determining your salary, we consider your experience, skills, education, and work location.
Our total compensation package includes unlimited personal time off, an employee stock purchase plan, and a reward system.
We also offer medical/dental benefits, and a company matching 401(k) plan for retirement

Dynatrace provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We actively foster an inclusive workplace that celebrates differences and promotes accessibility, collaboration, and growth for all.