Principal Product Manager, Java Intelligence
Quick Summary
stay in the sprints, in the design reviews, and in the implementation trade-offs. Run customer requirement sessions. Direct the UX and UI work on user experience and visual design — and,
Azul == Java. As the only company focused 100% on Java, Azul is building the Java platform for the modern cloud enterprise. We are reimagining how customers use Java, bringing them the tools and insight they need to deliver faster, more performant, more dependable, and less expensive Java services. It requires experts in many areas — hardcore experts in Java VM internals, application developers with deep knowledge of Java, backend and frontend developers, performance engineers, etc. Come join one of the most influential members of the Java and OpenJDK community and help influence the future of Java.
The Products
Azul Intelligence Cloud turns production Java runtime data into actionable intelligence. It works with any JVM from any vendor — Azul, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft, Red Hat, Eclipse — which makes it the one Azul product that can land in an enterprise’s entire Java estate regardless of what runtime they run today. The suite spans Code Inventory (class- and method-level reports of what code actually executes in production, so dead code can be found and removed) and JVM Inventory. Azul’s customers include 36% of the Fortune 100 and 50% of Forbes’ top 10 World’s Most Valuable Brands. Intelligence Cloud is a new product and Azul's primary growth bet — early enough that whoever takes this role will shape what it becomes.
Azul Optimizer Hub makes Java applications start fast and stay fast. A component of Azul Prime, it runs as a set of services in the customer’s own Kubernetes environment, in the cloud or on premises, and takes optimization work off the JVMs themselves: Cloud Native Compiler offloads JIT compilation to dedicated, scalable compute, and ReadyNow Orchestrator records and serves warm-up profiles, so new JVMs can do much of their warm-up before they take traffic. Because JVMs share optimizations through it, Optimizer Hub pays off most at fleet scale — one enterprise runs more than 10,000 JVMs against a single instance and has cut its cloud costs by more than 20%.
Payara InSight gives teams running Azul Payara Server real-time visibility and alerting on their servers and the applications running on them. Azul Payara Server is the Jakarta EE application server that joined Azul when it acquired Payara in December 2025. It is growing from a console that watches one Payara domain into a product that sees every Payara Server and Payara Micro instance, wherever it runs.
All three put what happens inside production Java to work — Intelligence Cloud to show customers what their Java estate is actually running, Optimizer Hub to make it run faster and cheaper, and Payara InSight to show how the applications on top of it are behaving. Beyond that, they differ in almost every way that matters to a product manager: Intelligence Cloud is SaaS, works with any JVM, and can land in any Java estate; Optimizer Hub is self-hosted, works only with Azul Prime, and turns Prime from a faster JVM into a faster fleet; Payara InSight is built for Azul Payara and speaks to the teams who run applications rather than JVMs. We expect the three to work more and more as one platform, and shaping that is part of this job.
You will own specific areas of Azul Intelligence Cloud, Azul Optimizer Hub, and Payara InSight, alongside other product managers on the team. For each of your areas, you own its strategy, its roadmap, its pricing, the story the market hears about it, and the numbers it puts up. You set the direction, you defend it in front of the executive team, and you are accountable for where your areas end up. Expect the balance of your time across the three to shift as the business does. Your products are also closely tied to Azul’s Java runtimes: Optimizer Hub ships as part of Azul Prime, and Intelligence Cloud’s JVM Inventory speeds up Azul Core’s Oracle migrations. Your decisions will shape the runtime roadmaps, and at times you’ll work on Azul Core and Azul Prime directly. This is an individual contributor role — there are no direct reports, and you will lead through clarity, evidence, and influence rather than headcount.
What you’ll own
Outcomes. Above all, you own whether your areas succeed or fail in the market, and you share accountability for how all three do. Sales, pipeline generation, pilot-to-production conversion rates, adoption, retention — these are your numbers, not just the field’s. You will define what success looks like, instrument it, report it honestly when it is bad, and change the product when the data says the strategy is wrong.
- 8+ years in product management, including several years owning a product or product line end to end — strategy through launch through revenue.
- Track record shipping enterprise SaaS in an adjacent market: application performance monitoring, application security, observability, optimization, systems management, or log analytics.
- Fluency with AI tools and experience operating in an AI-first product management organization — you use them in your daily product work and have a view on where they help and where they don't.
- Deep technical fluency generally — you can read an architecture diagram, follow an engineering debate, and ask the question that changes the answer.
- Demonstrated ownership of pricing and packaging for a technical product, including the messy cross-functional work of getting a model approved and into market.
- Understanding of DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and developers as the key influencers in an enterprise sales cycle.
- Strong domain knowledge of public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English — equally effective with an engineer and with a Fortune 100 CIO.
- Comfortable in a fully remote, async, multi-time-zone setup: self-directed, and a strong writer because writing is how decisions get made here.
- Comfortable in a startup-shaped environment where bringing order to chaos is part of the job.
Nice to Have
~1 min read- Hands-on software or quality engineering background — you have written code and debugged production systems.
- Experience with open source communities.
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimization: how compute is provisioned, monitored, and optimized.
- Experience taking a new product from early traction to a durable revenue line.
- Working knowledge of Java and Java development tooling.
- Familiarity with Jakarta EE application servers (Payara, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss) and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience working across more than one product at once, especially products at different stages or sold through different motions.
- Experience with infrastructure software that customers deploy and operate themselves, not just SaaS.
Azul is fully remote. We hire for judgment, curiosity, and low ego — and we expect the same from ourselves.
Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $175,000–$250,000 a year
- 4% above the $205,000 median for Principal Product Manager jobs on Jobera (257 salaries).
- Who can apply
- United States
- Posted
- Today
Listing Details
- Posted
- October 22, 2026
- First seen
- October 22, 2026
- Last seen
- October 22, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 80%
- Scored at
- October 22, 2026
Signal breakdown
Azul Systems develops and distributes runtimes (JDK, JRE, JVM) for executing Java-based applications. It is the largest company 100% focused on Java and the JVM.
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