Principal PM: AI-First Cloud Developer Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the multi-year vision for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and tooling strategy. You will shape APIs, developer tools, and platform interfaces across the cloud platform.

You will drive modern API paths, contribute to OpenAPI standards, and guide the evolution of CI/CD tooling, SDKs, and IaC providers with a focus on AI-first workflows.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience in product management 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 evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles.
• Familiar with LLM function calling, AI agent frameworks, and emerging protocols like Model Context Protocol.
• 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.

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenAPI standards

API Gateway

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the multi-year vision for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and tooling strategy. You will shape APIs, developer tools, and platform interfaces across the cloud platform.

You will drive modern API paths, contribute to OpenAPI standards, and guide the evolution of CI/CD tooling, SDKs, and IaC providers with a focus on AI-first workflows.