Cloud Developer Platform PM – APIs, Tools & AI

Akamai

United States

Hybrid

USD 160,000 - 287,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare
401K plan
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape the multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations. You will lead the vision for Akamai Cloud developer tooling, modernize API paths, and pioneer AI-first workflows with Model Context Protocol endpoints.

You will collaborate with engineering on API design, OpenAPI standards, and CLI/SDK/ Terraform provider development while unifying the Developer Experience across platforms.

Qualifications

  • 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or its equivalent.
  • Designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs and delivering developer tools like CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers.
  • Expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, and authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and mTLS.
  • Proven track record evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles without disrupting workloads.

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 to streamline and unify the Developer Experience across platforms for consistency and efficiency.

Skills

APIs design
Developer tools
Terraform providers
OAuth2 and mTLS
API Gateway
AI/LLM workflows
OpenAPI standards
SDKs/CLIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenAPI
Terraform
CLI
SDKs

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape the multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations. You will lead the vision for Akamai Cloud developer tooling, modernize API paths, and pioneer AI-first workflows with Model Context Protocol endpoints.

You will collaborate with engineering on API design, OpenAPI standards, and CLI/SDK/ Terraform provider development while unifying the Developer Experience across platforms.

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