Principal Product Manager, Cloud API & Dev Tooling

Akamai Technologies; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

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. Join our team as Principal Product Manager to lead the vision for Akamai Cloud developer tooling, modernize API paths, and pioneer AI-first workflows.

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 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.
• 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.

Skills

REST APIs

gRPC APIs

GraphQL APIs

Developer tools

OpenAPI

API design

OAuth2

mTLS

AI/LLM integration

Open-source ecosystems

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform providers

OpenAPI

CLI tooling

SDKs

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

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. Join our team as Principal Product Manager to lead the vision for Akamai Cloud developer tooling, modernize API paths, and pioneer AI-first workflows.