Principal Product Manager, Cloud APIs & DevTools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K savings plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Equity awards

Bonus potential

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a senior product leader to shape the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and infrastructure integrations.

You will lead vision, strategy, and execution for how developers interact with Akamai Cloud, and collaborate with engineering on API design and OpenAPI standards. This role emphasizes evolving enterprise APIs, CLI/SDK tooling, and AI-driven workflows, with a focus on API Gateway architectures, platform performance, and a unified

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 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.
• Knowledgeable about open-source developer ecosystems, IaC 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

APIs REST/gRPC/GraphQL

Developer tooling (CLI, SDKs,Terraform

API Gateway architectures

Traffic management

OAuth2

mTLS

Platform evolution

LLM function calling

AI agent frameworks

Model Context Protocol

Open-source ecosystems

Infrastructure as Code automation

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform providers

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a senior product leader to shape the multi-year strategy for Akamai Cloud developer tooling and infrastructure integrations.

You will lead vision, strategy, and execution for how developers interact with Akamai Cloud, and collaborate with engineering on API design and OpenAPI standards. This role emphasizes evolving enterprise APIs, CLI/SDK tooling, and AI-driven workflows, with a focus on API Gateway architectures, platform performance, and a unified