Starburst
Senior Product Manager, Data Federation
$180K–$215K
Boston, MA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Mar 16, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Experience
- 6+ years as a Product Manager.
About the job
Leads Starburst’s data federation strategy, defining and delivering capabilities for querying data across diverse systems, including workloads driven by AI agents.
What you'll do
- Identify workloads where federating across sources is preferable to consolidating data.
- Define agent-facing data infrastructure capabilities, including signaling when data visibility is partial.
- Set federation interoperability strategy for customer catalog implementations and drive execution with engineering and go-to-market teams.
What they ask for
- 6+ years as a Product Manager, with ownership of a technical infrastructure or data platform product.
- Real exposure to federated query or data virtualization.
- Clear point of view on precomputation and materialized views under agentic workloads.
- Experience managing lakehouse product offerings and their ecosystems.
Nice to have
- Experience with query engines such as Trino that federate across heterogeneous sources, and understanding of how table format and catalog design affect performance and reliability.
Pay
$180,000 — $215,000 USD (salary range; may be inclusive of variable compensation)
Tools
Trino, Polaris, Glue, Unity Catalog, Snowflake Open Catalog
AI focus
Develop federation capabilities for agentic workloads, including infrastructure that can signal partial data visibility and support queries generated during agent reasoning.
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