Cloud Developer Platform PM – APIs, Tools & AI

Akamai; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 287,000; Full time

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.