Principal Telemetry Pipeline Specialist
Summary
the pitchJoin Dynatrace, a leader in unified observability and security. As a Principal Telemetry Pipeline Specialist, you will be the business and technical evangelist for data-driven observability. You will partner with global sales and customer success teams to help organizations navigate the complexities of data explosion in hybrid and AI-native environments. Your role will involve domain expertise, competitive strategy, technical solution guidance, customer adoption, and collaboration.
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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
What will help you succeed
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).
Why you will love being a Dynatracer
- 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.
Compensation and Rewards
Key responsibilities
- Act as a subject matter expert in log management and observability, staying current with OpenTelemetry, cloud logging, and pipelines.
- Execute competitive displacement strategies, build ROI and economic value cases, and position Dynatrace effectively in enterprise environments.
- Advise on telemetry pipelines (OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Logstash), support Kubernetes, serverless, and cloud ecosystems, and optimize data routing and analytics strategies.