Developer - Application Platform Infrastructure

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The Application Platform Infrastructure team is looking for exceptional developers to deliver and innovate critical cloud infrastructure used by thousands of analytics customers. With a focus on back-end topics involving building and managing microservices at scale, automating technical processes for operations and engaging with teams around the world, our team is focused on bringing our application stack into the next generation. 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 cloud 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 and iterate to release them into production
• 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)

Role Requirements

• 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

Preferred qualifications:

• 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
  • Developing web services using technologies like Springboot, FastAPI, Flask, Django, etc
  • Creating CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps
  • 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

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.

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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 74,600 - 156800 (CAD) CAD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount, and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: www.SAPNorthAmericaBenefits.com.

Due to the nature of the role, which involves global interactions with SAP entities, as well as with employees and stakeholders in Canada, functional proficiency in English is required for positions based in the Quebec.

Requisition ID: 425044 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid