Cloud Developer Tools Lead & AI Workflows

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K plan

Company holidays

Vacation (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

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

You will shape the vision, drive execution, and partner with engineering to publish CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers for a broad developer audience. You will modernize API paths, improve API Gateway capabilities, and champion OpenAPI standards while enabling AI agent workflows and secure authentication with OAuth2 and mTLS.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or its equivalent.
• Experience 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.

Responsibilities

• Crafting and driving the multi-year vision, product strategy, and execution roadmap for Akamai Cloud developer tooling.
• Modernizing enterprise API paths while elevating API quality, consistency, and platform performance.
• Pioneering 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

REST APIs

gRPC

GraphQL

Developer tooling

CLI

SDKs

Terraform

OAuth2

mTLS

LLM

AI agents

Open-source

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenAPI standards

API Gateway

Terraform providers

CLI tooling

SDK integration

Job description

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

You will shape the vision, drive execution, and partner with engineering to publish CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers for a broad developer audience. You will modernize API paths, improve API Gateway capabilities, and champion OpenAPI standards while enabling AI agent workflows and secure authentication with OAuth2 and mTLS.