About the Role
Join an innovative, collaborative development environment and help shape secure data access and connectivity capabilities as part of SAP’s Big Data Fabric Services (BDFS). We are looking for a Platform Engineering Expert to help shape the next generation of SAP Datam Accelerator and related BDFS platform capabilities across architecture, engineering execution, and production readiness. We build the platform capabilities that make data analysis possible.
Responsibilities
- Contribute across design, coding, testing, operability, and quality assurance in a development team.
- Help shape architecture and technical direction.
- Assess and solve issues in new or existing code with high attention to detail, reliability, and efficiency.
- Collaborate closely with team members and stakeholders to ensure success.
- Work on design, coding, and quality assurance tasks related to strategic product capabilities.
- Drive platform decisions that balance security, scalability, operability, and product evolution across current and future phases.
- Development activities in Java, Python, and Go, with Rust as a plus.
- Work in an agile team that uses the Scrum framework to self-organize and work towards development goals.
- Mentor and guide the team to foster professional development and engineering excellence.
- Support the team on technical discussions, architecture topics, and platform direction.
- Help build PoCs, evaluate technical options, and drive important engineering decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Analysis, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering.
- Advanced or fluent English.
- Excellent programming skills and knowledge of algorithms, data structures, space, and run-time complexity (Big-O notation).
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Python, and/or Go in cloud-native and Kubernetes-based environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex software issues leveraging technical and product skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Willingness to continuously learn both new technologies and business processes.
- Strong expertise in networking concepts relevant to distributed systems, secure partner connectivity, and cloud environments.
- Strong command of secure connectivity and platform engineering patterns, including OAuth 2.0, mTLS, multi-tenant service design, and proxy or tunnel-based architectures.
- Strong background in production hardening, SRE practices, observability, and scalable multi-tenant service operation.
- Experience with observability practices including metrics, tracing, health checks, alerting, and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with scalability, autoscaling, capacity management, and performance tuning for distributed services.
- Experience with secure software engineering, threat modeling, and automated testing across unit, integration, end-to-end, and scale scenarios.
- Knowledge of AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools, and the ability to use them effectively across the software development lifecycle.
- Strong expertise in SAP backend integration, including SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA), the NetWeaver stack, and related extensibility patterns.
- Experience shaping technical direction for secure partner connectivity and SAP data access scenarios.
- Experience designing API-driven platform capabilities such as self-service enrollment, endpoint discovery, connection and session management, capacity management, or related control-plane workflows.
- Experience shaping control-plane and data-plane architectures for secure, scalable enterprise data access.
- Willingness to take ownership, drive new developments, and work creatively on challenging and groundbreaking tasks in accordance with the highest technical standards, plus a high level of commitment, team spirit, flexibility, and initiative.
- Rust development experience.
- Hands-on ABAP development experience.
- Experience building SAP add-ons or backend extensions.
- Current hands-on experience using AI-assisted or agentic tools across the software development lifecycle.
Skills
- Java
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- Kubernetes
- OAuth 2.0
- mTLS
- OpenTelemetry
- SAP ERP
- S/4HANA
- NetWeaver
- API design
- Control-plane architecture
- Data-plane architecture
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum framework
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Regular Full Time
- Part-Time
Experience Level
- Professional
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Analysis, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering.
Benefits
- Constant learning
- Skill growth
- Great benefits
- Team that wants you to grow and succeed
- Focus on health and well-being
- Flexible working models
About the Company
- 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.
- SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively.
- Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management.
- As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development.
- Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves.
- At SAP, you can bring out your best.
Equal Opportunity
- We win with inclusion.
- SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best.
- At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential.
- We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.
- SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
- For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process.
- Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.
