Platform Engineering Expert

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.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

Join an innovative, collaborative development environment and help build secure data access and connectivity capabilities as part of SAP’s Big Data Fabric Services (BDFS).

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who can contribute across design, implementation, operability, and technical problem-solving in the SAP Data Accelerator and broader BDFS context.

We do not work as data scientists analyzing or extracting data directly. We build the platform capabilities that make this possible.

THE PRODUCT

SAP Data Accelerator focuses on secure partner connectivity and access to SAP business data across SAP ERP and LoB applications in on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud landscapes.

This work sits within the broader BDFS portfolio, which enables SAP Lines of Business and customers to enter the world of big data more easily. BDFS delivers platform capabilities such as Apache Spark as a service, multi-language data processing on Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and access to hyperscaler-agnostic data sources using the Delta Sharing protocol on top of the HANA Data Lake File Service (HDLFS).

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Platform Engineering Expert, you will contribute across design, coding, testing, operability, and quality assurance in a development team, while also helping shape architecture and technical direction. You will assess and solve issues in new or existing code and work with high attention to detail, reliability, and efficiency. You will collaborate closely with your team members and stakeholders to ensure success.

In your day-to-day, your tasks will be:

- 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.
- Engage in development activities using Java, Python, and Go, with Rust considered an advantage.
- Collaborate within an agile team employing the Scrum framework to self-organize and achieve development objectives.
- Mentor and guide team members to promote professional growth and engineering excellence.
- Support the team in technical discussions, architectural topics, and platform strategy.

Help build PoCs, evaluate technical options, and drive important engineering decisions.

WHAT YOU BRING

Required skills

- Core engineering and technical leadership
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Analysis, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering
- Advanced or fluent English proficiency
- Excellent programming skills with knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and run-time complexity (Big-O notation)
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Python, and/or Go within cloud-native and Kubernetes-based environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to troubleshoot complex software issues using technical and product knowledge
- Good communication skills
- Willingness to continuously learn new technologies and business processes

Platform, security, and operability

- 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.

SAP and platform architecture

- 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.
- Demonstrates a high level of commitment, team spirit, flexibility, and initiative.

Nice to have

- 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

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

By joining our team, you will be exposed to the latest technologies and work with world-class developers who will take your professional skills to the next level.

You will work across modern cloud-native platform engineering topics including Kubernetes, observability, security, and large-scale distributed services.

You will deepen your understanding of secure enterprise connectivity and SAP data access scenarios across hybrid landscapes.

You will have the opportunity to shape platform capabilities that evolve from current connectivity scenarios into broader API-driven data access capabilities across future project phases.

MEET YOUR TEAM

You will work with your team on SAP Data Accelerator within SAP HANA Cloud & Datalakehouse / Big Data Fabric Services. These products help our customers access data from anywhere.

The Big Data Fabric Services team is responsible for:

- Extend and complete the SAP Data Platform with big data technologies to support different SAP Lines of Business.
- Leverage Apache Spark and object store technology to provide scalable and cost-effective computing and storage services for big data ingestion, processing, and sharing.
- Integrate into SAP BTP and HANA Cloud & Data Lakehouse to offer a unified development and deployment experience for different SAP Lines of Business.
- Assure multi-tenancy and secure data processing.
- Build capabilities for secure partner connectivity and governed access to SAP business data.

In the BDFS team, we have an agile and collaborative culture where knowledge sharing is fostered.

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
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Requisition ID: 454159 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid