Own the long‑term roadmap for the Azure SQL storage engine, query processor, and performance subsystems—focusing on scale, latency, reliability, and cloud‑optimized efficiency. Embody our culture and values Technical expertise and hands‑on experience with database internals, including storage engine behavior, query processing fundamentals, indexing, and transaction/log architecture. 5+ years of product management or equivalent technical leadership experience in databases, distributed systems, or…
Responsibilities
Drive cross‑team execution with SQL Engine, Storage, Compute, Networking, and Azure platform teams to deliver foundational performance and engine improvements. Use deep customer and telemetry insights to identify performance gaps, storage inefficiencies, query plan issues, and drive data‑backed prioritization. Define and monitor core engine KPIs, including IO latency, throughput, plan stability, memory efficiency, and end‑to‑end workload performance. Lead competitive and market analysis across cloud databases to inform strategy, positioning, and differentiation. Engage directly with enterprise customers to unblock complex workloads, guide performance tuning, and validate new engine capabilities. Partner across engineering, field, and operations to ensure reliability, live‑site quality, and autonomous behaviors improve continuously. Experience applying data‑driven decision‑making using telemetry, performance metrics, or workload insights. Experience troubleshooting database performance or reliability issues (e. Experience with SQL Server internals or other major database engines (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL). Experience partnering with CSS/SRE organizations on diagnostic tooling, incident patterns, or self‑serve troubleshooting workflows.
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