Cloud DevTools Principal PM - AI-Driven Platform Strategy

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

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Health benefits

401K savings

Equity awards

ESPP

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. invites a seasoned Principal Product Manager to own the multi-year vision and execution for Akamai Cloud developer tooling, APIs, and open standards.

You will modernize API paths, design CLI/SDKs and Terraform providers, and advance AI-enabled developer interfaces while aligning with platform performance and security.

Join a team shaping scalable edge and cloud integrations across Akamai's world-leading platform.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant product management experience.
• Experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs and delivering developer tools like CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers.
• Solid expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, and authentication protocols (OAuth2, mTLS).
• Proven track record evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles.
• Familiar with LLM function calling and AI agent frameworks.

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 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

OpenAPI standards

Terraform providers

CLI/SDKs

AI/LLM workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

CLI

SDKs

Terraform

OpenAPI

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. invites a seasoned Principal Product Manager to own the multi-year vision and execution for Akamai Cloud developer tooling, APIs, and open standards.

You will modernize API paths, design CLI/SDKs and Terraform providers, and advance AI-enabled developer interfaces while aligning with platform performance and security.

Join a team shaping scalable edge and cloud integrations across Akamai's world-leading platform.