Cloud Developer Platform Lead (APIs & AI Tools)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 160,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and APIs.

You will shape the vision and drive the roadmap across the Cloud platform, APIs, and developer experiences. In this role you will modernize API paths, design interfaces for AI agents and LLM-driven workflows, and collaborate with engineering on OpenAPI standards and gateway capabilities.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs and delivering developer tools like CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers
• Possess solid expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, and authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and mTLS
• Demonstrate a proven track record of evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles without disrupting existing workloads
• Be familiar with LLM function calling, AI agent frameworks, and emerging protocols like Model Context Protocol
• Be knowledgeable about open-source developer ecosystems, Infrastructure as Code automation communities, and cloud platforms

Responsibilities

• Crafting and driving the multi-year vision, product strategy, and execution roadmap for Akamai Cloud developer tooling
• Modernizing brownfield enterprise API paths while elevating API quality, consistency, and platform performance
• Pioneering next-generation developer interfaces for AI agents and LLM-driven workflows using Model Context Protocol endpoints
• Collaborating with engineering on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, schema governance, and API Gateway capabilities
• Overseeing product development for official developer tools including CLI, SDKs, and Infrastructure as Code providers
• Influencing strategy of streamlining and unifying the Developer Experience across multiple platforms to ensure consistency and efficiency

Skills

API design

Developer tooling

Cloud platforms

LLM workflows

Open-source ecosystems

Infrastructure as Code

OAuth2 & mTLS

Lifecycle management

Model Context Protocol

AI agents

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CLI tools

SDKs

Terraform providers

OpenAPI standards

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and APIs.

You will shape the vision and drive the roadmap across the Cloud platform, APIs, and developer experiences. In this role you will modernize API paths, design interfaces for AI agents and LLM-driven workflows, and collaborate with engineering on OpenAPI standards and gateway capabilities.