SAP iXp Intern - Software Developer

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

About the SAP Internship Experience Program

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.

Three reasons to intern at SAP

1. Culture of collaboration: meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe and create a thriving personal network.

1. Project-driven experience: gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables.

1. Gain visibility: with SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you’ll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs and career development opportunities at your fingertips.

What you’ll do:

Title: SAP iXp Intern – Software Development

Location: Newport Beach, California / Hybrid

Expected start date: March 2025

Data-driven insights and improvements and data science in development productivity engineering becomes more and more relevant in the software industry and for SAP. Common frameworks like SPACE, DevEx, and DORA as well as flow and technical debt metrics are partially established at SAP, but not commonly applied.

This internship project aims at discovering, elaborating, consolidating, and prototyping the most promising use cases for development productivity engineering and respective productivity metrics at SAP.

Your tasks include investigate the available data and generate insights. E.g.:Release Confidence Scoring: Combine data from GitHub (PR approvals, test coverage), CI/CD pipelines (build and test success rates), and tools like ServiceNow (incident backlog) to generate a “release confidence score.” Use this score to determine the readiness of a release based on historical trends and risk analysis. Such a solution can eventually be rolled out to up to 20,000 developers at via our Hyperspace Portal Platform. The work will also include evaluating the potential impact for SAP development in terms of productivity, job satisfaction and / or other benefits for an organization while taking common product standards and architecture guidelines into account.

What you bring:

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stay curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

• Education: Bachelors or Masters in a related field. Student from Hasso Plattner Institute highly preferred.
• Eligibility: Must be currently enrolled, or recently graduated (start date must be within 6 months of graduation date) from a coding academy/bootcamp, apprenticeship, associate, bachelor’s, master’s or JD/PhD program.
• Outstanding grades and academic referrals

• Experience in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) as well as

• Commercial Software Development and Cloud Operations

• A solid understanding of the entire cloud software development lifecycle incl. DevOps

• A data-driven, systemic thinking, and continuous improvement mindset

• Ability to solve complex topics and drive results across board areas at SAP

• Excellent team player and collaboration skills

• Excellent communication skills with strong empathy

• Fluency in English language (both written and spoken)

Meet your team:

The Developer Experience team within Engineering & Technology Operations for SAP sets the direction on how SAP will be developing enterprise software in future and thus is pivotal for SAP’s development strategy. It’s on the team to provide our global development organization with the best-possible workplace environment to collaboratively deliver the world's #1 enterprise applications to customers. The team’s success is rooted on a strong collaborating with stakeholders across the board at SAP as well as with industry partners such as Google, GitHub and Microsoft and world-renown university alliances.

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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

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.

Compensation Range Transparency: 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 hourly base salary rate range applicable for the posted role. The targeted range for this position is 15 - 62 USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidates 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. SAP offers limited benefits for employees hired into hourly or like roles subject to appliable plan/policy terms. A summary of benefits and eligibility requirements can be found by clicking this link: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 418015 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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