Principal PM, Cloud APIs & DevTools Strategy

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; 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

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and APIs. You will lead the vision and execution for APIs, CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers, bridging architecture and product strategy.

You will modernize API paths, elevate API quality, and pioneer AI agent workflows while collaborating with engineering on OpenAPI standards and gateway capabilities.

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 (OAuth2, mTLS).
• Proven track record evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles.
• Familiarity with LLM function calling, AI agent frameworks, and Model Context Protocol.

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-gen 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 multiple platforms.

Skills

REST APIs

gRPC

GraphQL

Developer tools

Terraform providers

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

OpenAPI

Terraform

CLI

SDKs

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to shape the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and APIs. You will lead the vision and execution for APIs, CLI, SDKs, and IaC providers, bridging architecture and product strategy.

You will modernize API paths, elevate API quality, and pioneer AI agent workflows while collaborating with engineering on OpenAPI standards and gateway capabilities.