Principal Product Manager

Akamai Technologies GmbH; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K savings plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai seeks a Principal Product Manager to shape the multi-year vision for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and API platforms. You will lead strategy and execution, collaborating with engineering to define APIs, tools, and workflows that empower developers.

You will modernize API paths, design AI-first interfaces, and drive high-impact developer experiences across the Akamai Cloud platform, ensuring consistency and performance.

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.
• 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 emerging protocols like Model Context Protocol.
• Knowledge of open-source developer ecosystems, IaC automation communities, and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Crafting multi-year vision, strategy, and execution roadmap for Akamai Cloud developer tooling.
• Modernizing enterprise API paths while elevating API quality, consistency, and platform performance.
• Pioneering next-generation developer interfaces for AI agents and LLM-driven workflows.
• 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 unify Developer Experience across platforms for consistency and efficiency.

Skills

REST APIs

gRPC APIs

GraphQL APIs

Developer tools

API gateways

OAuth2

mTLS

LLM workflows

Open-source

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CLI tooling

SDKs

Terraform providers

Job description

Are you eager to shape the multi-year strategy for cloud APIs, developer tools, and infrastructure integrations?

Are you looking to bridge the gap between deep technical architecture and product strategy?

Join our team

Akamai Cloud Technology Group empowers customers to build scalable distributed applications across a simple cloud platform. Our Compute Foundations team creates core primitives, APIs, systems, and developer tools. We power compute interactions across the Akamai Cloud platform.

Partner with the best

You will lead the vision, strategy, and execution for how developers interact with Akamai Cloud. In this role, you will evolve enterprise developer tools and pioneer AI-first workflows.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for:

• 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.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or its equivalent
• Have experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs and delivering developer tools like CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers
• Possess solid expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, and authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and mTLS
• Demonstrate a proven track record of evolving mature developer platforms and managing breaking-change lifecycles without disrupting existing workloads
• Be familiar with LLM function calling, AI agent frameworks, and emerging protocols like Model Context Protocol
• Be knowledgeable about open-source developer ecosystems, Infrastructure as Code automation communities, and cloud platforms

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

• Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
• Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
• Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
• AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $159,600 - $287,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.