# Senior Product Manager, Data Federation at Starburst

- Company: Starburst
- What the company does: Backed by Index and a16z.
- Company website: http://starburstdata.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Boston, MA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-03-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst/jobs/5153031008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/starburst-senior-product-manager-data-federation/

## About the role

The lakehouse-only bet, bring your data into one lake, bring a fast engine to query it there, held up for years. It doesn't anymore. Agents don't sit inside one lake and wait their turn. They reason across the whole estate, firing off queries at production speed, and they generate new questions mid-reasoning based on what they just found. You can't materialize a view for a query that didn't exist five seconds ago.

## What they're looking for

- Identify and make the case for the next set of workloads, human-driven or agent-led, where federating across sources beats consolidating them, especially as agent reasoning outruns what any single lake can hold
- Define what agents actually need from data infrastructure beyond access: a way to signal partial visibility instead of returning a confident, complete-sounding answer built on whatever it could see
- Define how Starburst's federation layer interoperates with the catalog implementations customers actually run, Polaris, Glue, Unity Catalog, Snowflake Open Catalog, and others, rather than betting on a single one
- 6+ years as a Product Manager, with real ownership of a technical infrastructure or data platform product
- Real exposure to federated query or data virtualization. You understand why "query everything without moving it" solves a core data engineering problem and isn't just a marketing line
- A clear point of view on why precomputation and materialized views break under agentic workloads, and what a data platform needs to do instead when queries are generated mid-reasoning rather than scheduled

Tags: Product