Expert Agentic Platform Engineer (f/m/d) for ApeiroRA / EU AI Projects

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.

Join SAP Cloud Infrastructure and help shape the next generation of cloud services and platform capabilities powering SAP's sovereign and regulated cloud environments.

As an Expert Agentic Platform Engineer, you will act as a technical authority for complex and strategically important engineering topics. You will combine deep hands-on software engineering with broad technical leadership, tackling ambiguous problems, shaping architecture, and driving solutions that span multiple systems and engineering teams.

Depending on your expertise, you may shape cloud services, AI-enabled platforms, distributed systems, or European open-source initiatives such as ApeiroRA and NeoNephos.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable cloud-native applications, services, APIs, and distributed systems, taking technical ownership from problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production operation.

• Shape architecture and long-term technical direction across multiple components and strategic engineering areas, defining reusable patterns and standards that scale beyond a single project or team.

• Lead technical initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders, including support for developing an agentic harness and sandboxing environment.

• Drive engineering excellence in software architecture, automation, CI/CD, observability, security, testing, and operational readiness.

• Act as a technical sparring partner for senior engineers, architects, and engineering leadership, mentoring engineers through guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Contribute to open-source projects (e.g. ApeiroRA, NeoNephos) and the evolution of SAP's cloud platform capabilities.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience in designing, building, and operating complex production-grade software and distributed systems.

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating complex production-grade distributed systems using Python, Go, or comparable languages, with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.

• Strong track record in CI/CD, automated testing, DevSecOps, observability (Prometheus, Grafana), and production engineering with a focus on security and operational readiness.

• Experience using AI tools for engineering tasks (coding, troubleshooting, automation) with the ability to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs; practical understanding of LLM optimization and ability to design and operate MCP servers.

• Proven ability to influence technical direction, shape architectural decisions, and define reusable engineering practices beyond your immediate area of responsibility.

• Excellent communication skills in English, with experience leading technical discussions across distributed international teams; strong mentoring and knowledge-sharing capabilities.

• Self-motivated ownership mindset, comfortable solving complex problems and making sound technical decisions in ambiguous or evolving environments.

We don’t expect you to have experience with every technology listed. If you have a strong foundation in several of these areas and are interested in learning the others, we’d be happy to hear from you.

Where you belong:

You will join SAP Cloud Infrastructure, where we build the infrastructure behind SAP’s enterprise, sovereign, and regulated cloud environments using technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes/Gardener, Ceph, and Prometheus.

Our engineering culture is hands-on and collaborative. We work on real infrastructure problems, share what we learn, and believe a private cloud is something you build, not something you rent.

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Bring out your best
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.

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.

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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

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Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 442323 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid