Developer

Job Description

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.

What you'll do

The SAP HANA Database and Analytics Core engine team is looking for an intermediate developer to contribute to our next generation semantics engine development. In this role, you will be designing, developing features, and maintaining our semantics engine, which runs inside SAP HANA in-memory database, and serves semantic engine especially SPARQL-RDF queries.

At SAP, all members of the engineering team, including management are hands-on and close to the code. If you think you can thrive in such an environment, and you have the necessary skills and experience please do not hesitate to apply.

Expectation and tasks

As a senior developer on the SAP HANA Database team, you will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to hands-on coding, design, and architecture that is best suited for our team size and performance targets

• Requirement elicitation, feature elaboration, task break-down and estimation

• Collaborate in a team environment that extends to colleagues in remote locations and from various lines of businesses within the company

• Ability to communicate, and guide other teams to construct best possible queries for their needs

• Assess new technology, tool, and infrastructure to keep up with the rapid pace of change.

• Embrace lean and agile software development principles

• Mentor junior team members

• Debug, troubleshoot and communicate with customers about their issues with their data models, and queries

• Continually enhance existing skills and seek new areas for personal development

What you bring

• Must have university degree in computer science, or engineering with 2+ years of recent and relevant hands-on experience working as a C++ developer. Other object-oriented languages may be considered

• Prior experience designing and developing well-encapsulated, or object-oriented code is required

• Knowledge and experience with more recent C++ standard such as C++17 is highly desirable

• Knowledge of relational logic and prior experience with summarization and/or reporting using SQL, or OLAP, or NoSQL databases is highly desirable

• Knowledge of semantics/graph technology like SPARQL, RDF, Cypher is highly desirable

• Development experience with large codebases, and developing native applications on Linux is desirable

• Experience with debugging using GDB is desirable

• Knowledge and experience developing multi-threaded applications is desirable

• Knowledge of HTTP protocol, and TCP/IP networking is required

• Experience with development methodologies and continuous development models is desirable

• Prior experience with gathering requirements and interfacing with customers and product management is desirable

• Excellent verbal, written, analytical and communication skill is required

Meet the team

HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine development team - is part of the HANA Cloud Multi-model database at SAP. The team is responsible for developing the Knowledge Graph Engine, a graph database based on the RDF/SPARQL technology. Knowledge Graphs technology is a rapidly developing market segment, and in general, they are currently in the forefront of all the Business AI, contributing to the development of RAG-AI applications and AI agents. Right now, HANA Knowledge Graph Engine is considered as foundational platform for the SAP AI tools and AI agents that are being developed. The team is distributed globally, with major concentrations in Boston, USA, and Pune, India.

Candidate must be based in the Boston area or willing to relocate there.

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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Requisition ID: 451057 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid