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Posted date: Jan 30, 2026
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Category: Product Management
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office – remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.
Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to drive critical investments in the core database engine, shaping how we build, scale, and optimize the foundational capabilities that power mission‑critical workloads at global scale. This role will focus on the storage engine, query processing engine, and end‑to‑end performance, directly influencing reliability, scalability, and efficiency for some of the world’s most demanding database applications.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will work at the intersection of deep systems engineering, customer needs, and long‑term platform strategy. You will partner closely with engineering, architecture, and field teams to define and deliver core engine innovations that translate into real‑world customer value.
We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.
Responsibilities
Own the product strategy and execution for core SQL engine investments across the storage engine, query processing engine, and performance, ensuring these foundational capabilities meet Azure SQL’s long‑term scalability, reliability, and efficiency goals.
Partner deeply with engineering and architecture leaders to prioritize and shape engine‑level decisions that improve latency, throughput, and predictability for diverse and demanding customer workloads.
Translate customer and workload insights into clear product direction, balancing near‑term performance improvements with durable architectural choices that benefit the broader Azure SQL platform over time.
Define measurable success criteria for core engine initiatives, tracking performance, reliability, and cost‑efficiency outcomes to demonstrate sustained customer and business impact.
Influence aligned execution across teams—including applied engineering, field, and partner groups—by clearly communicating complex technical trade‑offs and ensuring solutions are well understood and adopted.
Embody Microsoft culture and values, fostering collaboration, inclusion, and shared accountability while role‑modeling customer focus and long‑term thinking across the Azure Data organization.
Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
Job Requirements: Other & Additional
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Preferred/Additional Qualifications
2+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
2+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers).
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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