Principal Product Manager
Akamai•Cambridge, MA
•$159,600 - $287,400•Hybrid
About The Position
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. 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.
Requirements
- 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
- Technical fluency in CNCF technologies, requiring Kubernetes expertise, alongside experience in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, database management, and data visualization tools.
- Knowledgeable about 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 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.
Benefits
- Healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Family friendly benefits including parental leave
- Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
