(Senior) Engineer (f/m/d) - Application Performance Management (APM)

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.

Summary

The BTP Fabric unit addresses all architectural and conceptional questions to ensure engineering excellence throughout SAP, and takes responsibility for operationalizing the CTO function across all board areas. BTP Fabric is also responsible for SAP’s overall platform and technology development such as SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP Core). We are looking for a (Senior) Engineer to strengthen our Application Performance Management (APM) team in Walldorf. Our work environment offers an exciting mix of opportunities, a collaborative and energetic team of technology professionals, and the opportunity to work with leading Infrastructure and Platform-as-a-Service technologies (for example, Kubernetes). As a (Senior) Engineer, you will bridge the gap between application and infrastructure, in terms of technical and organizational matters. If you are highly motivated, self-driven, enjoy working with international teams and eager to learn, then we want to hear from you.

The Role

• Programming (mostly) in Golang (Kubernetes Operators, REST APIs, libraries and tools)
• Designing solutions providing new features for our customers
• Develop and operate highly scalable cloud solutions
• Knowledge in providing a seamless experience for engineers in a multi-tenancy cloud environment, including path to production, observability and metrics
• Automating tasks, especially self healing mechanisms of the platform
• Supporting development teams in their daily operational work is native to you
• Checking out new technologies and introducing them to others to promote innovation and create business value is your inner motivation
• Explaining technical problems and understanding business requirements comes naturally for you
• Bug Fixing and the work on user requests concerning the designed software
• On Call Duty if the self healing mechanisms were not sufficient

What you bring

Required skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Software Engineering, or a related technical field or comparable education
• 5+ years of experience working as a developer
• Experienced in Go, Java, Python or Bash/Power Shell supplemented by having experience in managing cloud infrastructure (e.g. with Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker etc.) and exposure to tools for configuration management
• Good knowledge of operating Linux/Unix based systems, understanding kernel, shell, scripting, etc.
• Familiarity with at least one cloud solution such as Amazon AWS, Azure, Google, Openstack
• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes or others)
• Having good knowledge on SOLID, DRY and KISS principles
• Code management using e.g., GitLab and GitHub
• Solid understanding of software design, engineering and architecture principles
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to drill down to the code level
• Knowledge about "Clean Code” and being determined to improve on quality all the time
• Very good written and verbal English language skills

Preferred skills

• Practical experience with observability, monitoring, and analytics tooling (e.g. Dynatrace, Grafana, ELK)
• Practical experience/understanding of agile concepts (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, pair programming) and lean principles
• Experience with Continuous Delivery processes