Principal Product Manager
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Principal Product Manager shaping Akamai Cloud developer tools and AI-first workflows. Driving API strategy, developer platforms, and infrastructure integrations for Akamai’s distributed cloud.
Responsibilities:
- Craft and drive the multi-year vision, product strategy, and execution roadmap for Akamai Cloud developer tooling
- Modernize brownfield enterprise API paths while elevating API quality, consistency, and platform performance
- Pioneer next-generation developer interfaces for AI agents and LLM-driven workflows using Model Context Protocol endpoints
- Collaborate with engineering on API design guidelines, OpenAPI standards, schema governance, and API Gateway capabilities
- Oversee product development for official developer tools, including CLI, SDKs, and Infrastructure as Code providers
- Influence the strategy for streamlining and unifying Developer Experience across multiple platforms
Requirements:
- 15 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or its equivalent
- Experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs
- Experience delivering developer tools such as CLIs, SDKs, and Terraform providers
- Expertise in API Gateway architectures, traffic management, and authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and mTLS
- Proven track record of evolving mature developer platforms
- Experience managing breaking-change lifecycles without disrupting existing workloads
- Technical fluency in CNCF technologies
- Kubernetes expertise
- Experience in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, database management, and data visualization tools
- Knowledge of open-source developer ecosystems
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code automation communities
- Knowledge of cloud platforms
Benefits:
- Annual bonus or incentives
- Equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Employee assistance program
- Mental wellness support
- Financial wellness support
- Flexible work arrangements: at home, in an office, or a combination of both













