Principal PM, Cloud API & Developer Tools Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Company holidays

Vacation (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Principal Product Manager to lead multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations.

You will bridge architecture and product strategy, evolving enterprise APIs, CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers, while aligning with OpenAPI standards and AI-first workflows. You will shape the Developer Experience across Akamai Cloud, collaborating with engineering on design guidelines and governance, and overseeing official developer tools

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.
• Solid 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.
• Familiar with LLM function calling, AI agent frameworks, and Model Context Protocol.
• Knowledge of open-source developer ecosystems, Infrastructure as Code automation, 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 developer tools including CLI, SDKs, and Infrastructure as Code providers.
• Influencing strategy to unify the Developer Experience across platforms for consistency and efficiency.

Skills

API design

REST APIs

gRPC APIs

GraphQL APIs

Developer tools

CLI/SDKs

Terraform providers

OpenAPI

API Gateway

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenAPI

API Gateway

Terraform

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Principal Product Manager to lead multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations.

You will bridge architecture and product strategy, evolving enterprise APIs, CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers, while aligning with OpenAPI standards and AI-first workflows. You will shape the Developer Experience across Akamai Cloud, collaborating with engineering on design guidelines and governance, and overseeing official developer tools