WE HELP THE WORLD RUN BETTER

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we’ll bring out the best in you. We’re builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what’s next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You’ll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What’s in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
The BDC Infrastructure organization is looking for people to help with our next generation cloud architecture, with a focus on back-end topics involving building and managing microservices at scale. Are you passionate about building robust large scale distributed systems in a rapidly growing SaaS solution? Do you relish working in a collaborative environment with world-class engineers on a wide array of technologies? If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

EXPECTATIONS

Because we are working on new, potentially complex architecture, we need someone who is resourceful, eager to learn, a creative problem solver, and has strong collaborative skills. We’re looking for someone who can:

• Develop scalable and robust backend services
• Design, develop, lead and deliver features with a high level of quality
• Solve complex problems with simple solutions
• Rapidly ideate and prototype proof-of-concepts
• Take the initiative to identify gaps and opportunities in our product and technology stack
• Collaborate with teams locally and across the world to contribute key deliverables that provide innovative business value to our customers
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call support on a rotational basis (week-long every 7-8 weeks)

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience with microservice architecture, back-end design principles, software development best practices
• Experience using or operating HANA or HANA Cloud for web applications
• Experience doing some of the following:
• Building containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• Creating CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, xMake (internal)
• Leveraging Cloud Monitoring tooling for operating services (Elastic, Splunk, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry)
• Managing other specialized services (Postgres, Redis, HANA, Airflow, Envoy, Kong, Vault) using infrastructure related tooling such as Helm, Terraform, Ansible

• Degree in Computer Science or Software/Computer Engineering, or something equivalent
• 2 or more years of professional software development experience
• Experience developing production web services preferably using Java, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, Go
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry or Gardener using Kubernetes, or other cloud native deployment solutions.
• Experience working in a cloud environment and the challenges that come involving high availability, scalability, performance, observability, security, testability, etc
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging complex software systems in production environments to resolve issues and follow up with recommendations through root cause analysis
• Strong sense of drive, urgency, and ownership