Principal Product Manager, Cloud Developer Tools & AI

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the multi‑year vision and execution for Akamai Cloud developer tooling. You will shape APIs, tools, and infrastructure for enterprise developers across our cloud platform.

You will collaborate with engineering on API design, OpenAPI standards, and provider ecosystems while steering the roadmap for CLI, SDKs, and IaC integrations. This role emphasizes AI-first workflows and consistent developer experiences.

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.
• Familiar with LLM function calling, AI agent frameworks, and emerging Model Context Protocol.
• Knowledge of 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

API design

Developer tools

Security protocols

LLM / AI workflows

Cloud platforms

Open-source ecosystems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenAPI standards

Terraform

API Gateway

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the multi‑year vision and execution for Akamai Cloud developer tooling. You will shape APIs, tools, and infrastructure for enterprise developers across our cloud platform.

You will collaborate with engineering on API design, OpenAPI standards, and provider ecosystems while steering the roadmap for CLI, SDKs, and IaC integrations. This role emphasizes AI-first workflows and consistent developer experiences.