Lead Customer Success Engineer

As a Lead Customer Success Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining post-sales relationships with Dynatrace’s highest strategic customers. You will serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring the successful deployment and adoption of all Dynatrace products. Customers hold CSE's in high regard as experts and rely on you to guide them through ways of obtaining the greatest value from their Dynatrace solutions. You will be a point of contact and resource for other Technical Account Managers which include coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback. These duties will also expand into partnering with other CSE’s and customers to ensure success with Dynatrace Solutions.
Responsibilities and Duties
• Coach, Mentor, and provide feedback on an ongoing basis to other CSE’s while providing tactical recommendations
• Constantly go above and beyond to serve our customers and be a shining, standard-setting example of our Core Values
• Provide advice and guidance as the subject matter expert to ensure successful ongoing usage, adoption of the product, and foster growth of the customer’s footprint
• Be the customer’s advocate by knowing their goals and use cases, then suggesting process changes, product adoption, configuration, and additional features to meet their requirements
• Function as a frontline technical resource for “best practice” and informal customer questions
• Engage and review with customer support as a customer advocate to ensure speedy resolution of customer issues
• Engage with Product management as the customer advocate on product roadmap discussions
• Participate and prepare for Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews with customers
• Maintain current functional and technical knowledge of Dynatrace products and services
• Help to document best practices in developing and using Dynatrace
• Partners with support engineers, PM, and R&D to help customers and account teams to speed resolution. They must help, communicate, escalate and advocate on behalf of the customer.
• Provides insight, advice, and ‘street credibility’ with technical teams to understand technical issues and possible workarounds.
• Helps customers and account teams to understand support ticket trends/themes to be used to develop success plans, enablement advice, etc.
• Has deep understanding of customers’ infrastructure, architecture, and business/regulatory requirements to speed up resolution.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
• Work experience 5+ years of experience
• Prior leadership experience that is demonstratable
• Experience working with large enterprise customers, including executive leadership
• Demonstrated ability in leadership, mentorship, and organizational behavior
• A track record of going above and beyond for your team and customers
• Exceptional corporate presentation and relationship-building skills with technical and non-technical audiences
• Must possess exceptional written and verbal communications skills in English and Spanish; Portuguese is a plus.
• Demonstrated organizational and collaboration skills, with the ability to work efficiently and act with urgency and accountability
• Impeccable time management skills and an ability to self-direct
• Demonstrated experience being a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Dynatrace technologies, methodologies, frameworks, and 3rd party technologies related to Dynatrace
• Willingness to learn new technologies and resolve complex technical issues
• Professional Level Dynatrace certification (or get certification within six months)
• Industry-relevant Associate Level certification (AWS, Azure, k8s, …)
• Strong technical understanding and experience in SaaS industry
• Familiar with one or more of the following technologies related to Dynatrace:

o Cloud/new stack technologies such as OpenStack, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, SAP, etc.
o Web and application server technologies such as Apache, IIS, WebSphere, WebLogic, REACT and JBoss
o Server/Server-side technologies such as Java Servlets, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax
o Mobile application technologies such as iOS and Android Webkit.
o DevOps toolchain applications such as Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, etc.
o CMDB/ITSM Technologies/platforms such as ServiceNow and BMC

• Must be customer service oriented and believe in teamwork, collaboration, adaptability & Initiative.
• Demonstrable success in thinking strategically and executing tactically while providing consistent and high customer satisfaction and retention levels in a fast-paced environment

• 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.