Head of Cloud Developer Tools & AI-First APIs

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

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling, APIs, and infrastructure integrations. You will shape the vision for developer tooling, APIs, and AI-first workflows, guiding a platform of CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers.

You will collaborate with engineering on design guidelines, API gateway capabilities, and governance while driving cross-platform Developer Experience improvements across the Akamai Cloud.

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.
• Expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, and authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and mTLS.
• Proven track record of evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles without disrupting existing workloads.
• Knowledge of 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

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

Developer tooling

CLI & SDKs

Terraform providers

OpenAPI standards

API Gateway architectures

OAuth2 & mTLS

AI-first workflows

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CLI

SDKs

Terraform

OpenAPI tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling, APIs, and infrastructure integrations. You will shape the vision for developer tooling, APIs, and AI-first workflows, guiding a platform of CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers.

You will collaborate with engineering on design guidelines, API gateway capabilities, and governance while driving cross-platform Developer Experience improvements across the Akamai Cloud.