Principal Product Lead, Cloud API & AI DevTools

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 160,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Holidays

PTO

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Cloud Technology Group seeks a Principal Product Manager to shape the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations. You will bridge technical architecture with product leadership to guide platform evolution.

You will collaborate on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, and Terraform-based tooling, defining an enterprise roadmap for CLIs, SDKs, and IaC providers to unify the developer experience.

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.
• Expertise in API gateway architectures, traffic management, and OAuth2/mTLS.
• Proven track record evolving mature developer platforms without disrupting workloads.
• Familiar with LLM function calling, AI agent frameworks, and Model Context Protocol.
• Knowledge of open-source developer ecosystems 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.

Skills

API design

REST API

gRPC

GraphQL

CLI

SDKs

Terraform providers

OpenAPI

OAuth2

mTLS

LLM function calling

AI agent frameworks

Model Context Protocol

Open-source ecosystems

Cloud platforms

IaC automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

OpenAPI tooling

Job description

Akamai Cloud Technology Group seeks a Principal Product Manager to shape the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations. You will bridge technical architecture with product leadership to guide platform evolution.

You will collaborate on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, and Terraform-based tooling, defining an enterprise roadmap for CLIs, SDKs, and IaC providers to unify the developer experience.