Microsoft 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're seeking a Principal Developer Advocate to champion the adoption of our Postgres database services and application frameworks in application developer communities around the globe. This role is deeply embedded as part of our product team, and serves as the connective tissue between product strategy and developer community. You'll combine deep hands-on development expertise with thought leadership to win over application developers and drive Azure Postgres service adoption through authentic developer storytelling. Work hands-on to improve and refine our libraries and the developer experience as a whole.  

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. 

• Craft compelling technical narratives that show how our database platform enhances workflows of database administrators and productivity of application developers especially when building Generative AI agents. 
• Organize and deliver live presentations, workshops, and webinars to drive awareness and practical adoption.  
• Create technical content (tutorials, sample apps, blog posts, videos) that demonstrates real-world uses and best practices for the company’s platform or APIs.
• Maintain and contribute to developer-facing documentation, SDKs, command-line tools, and code examples to improve onboarding and reduce friction.   
• Act as the primary liaison between the developer community and engineering team; surface feature requests and usability issues.  
• Advocate for developer-first design inside the team by insisting on clarity, tooling, and workflows that reduce cognitive load and friction.  
• Measure and report on developer metrics (adoption, retention, active usage, contributions) and craft narratives to show business impact.  

Embody our culture and values 

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• ​​Bachelor's Degree ANDnexperience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in database management​