SAP China iXp Intern - HANA Cloud CI/CD 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 build

In this role, you’ll contribute to the backbone of SAP HANA Cloud’s delivery pipeline. As part of the HANA Cloud CI/CD team – within the HANA & HANA Cloud Quality Engineering unit under BTP HANA & Persistency Database Cloud Excellence – you will help ensure that hundreds of changes reach production every month in a fully automated, compliant, and transparent way.

Your work will directly impact the quality, reliability, and compliance of the HANA Cloud delivery process. Specifically, you will:

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipeline tooling that enforces compliance checks across the full HANA Cloud delivery stack.

• Contribute to automation scripts and tools that enable self-healing, scaling, and intelligent change management for cloud landscapes.

• Support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for managing distributed cloud environments (multi-cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Help build and enhance the team’s internal reporting and analytics system (powered by SAP Datasphere) to provide transparency across the delivery and deployment process.

• Identify reliability and quality gaps across CI/CD pipelines and contribute to solutions that improve availability, performance, and compliance.

• Explore and apply AI-driven approaches to evolve our CI/CD pipelines – from intelligent failure analysis and automated root-cause detection to AI-assisted pipeline optimisation at the edge layer.

You’ll be working on real-world, production-grade systems – not sandbox projects – shipping improvements that are used every day by SAP HANA Cloud development teams globally.

What you bring

We care more about your curiosity and drive to learn than a perfect resume. If you have most of these, we’d love to hear from you:

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Hands-on experience or strong interest in scripting and automation using Python, Shell/Bash, or similar languages.

• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and comfort working in a command-line-driven workflow.

• Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure or CI/CD concepts (e.g., containers, Kubernetes, Git, pipelines) – or an eagerness to learn them quickly.

• Analytical mindset with the ability to spot patterns, diagnose problems, and communicate findings clearly.

• Good written and spoken English for collaboration in a globally distributed team.

• Experience with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar LLM-assisted development workflows) is highly preferred – candidates who already code with AI will have a clear head start.

Nice to have: experience with Azure DevOps, Go/Golang, Kubernetes operators, or data visualization tools.

Where you belong

Joining the HANA Cloud CI/CD Team as part of SAP Next-Gen means becoming part of a team that is genuinely passionate about engineering quality at scale.

Our team sits at the intersection of DevOps, quality engineering, and cloud platform engineering – touching almost every part of how SAP HANA Cloud is built and delivered. We are a small, senior, and highly collaborative team that values ownership: you will not be handed trivial tasks. You’ll be trusted to pick up real work, ask good questions, and grow fast.

We offer: hands-on mentorship, exposure to enterprise-scale CI/CD systems, a flexible hybrid work environment, and a path to grow within SAP’s broader engineering organization.

AI-first engineering environment: Our pipelines are evolving with an AI-driven approach, integrating LLM-powered capabilities at the edge layer to make delivery smarter and faster. As an intern, you will have unrestricted access to the most advanced AI coding tools and frontier LLM models. You’ll work the way the best engineers in the world work today.

Location: Xi’an, China | Minimum 6 months internship

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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.

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

Requisition ID: 454054 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid