(Junior) Developer (f/m/d) for Cloud Native SCM Optimization Microservice

Posted on August 22, 2025
Walldorf
Posted on August 22, 2025

About this role

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 do

You are a (Junior) Developer (f/d/m) with a passion for using state-of-the-art technology in a modern cloud world? You want to have a direct and positive impact on the world’s most critical supply chains? You are looking for your next challenge?

Our mission is to help every customer to become a best-run business by providing data science and optimization software for all kinds of SAP applications. We provide excellent mathematical optimization to our customers that enable them to run innovative, intelligent, and sustainable supply chains. Our optimization algorithms are provided as cloud services to be scalable and highly performant with a guarantee for permanent availability.

We are looking for a (Junior) Developer (f/m/d) in the Foundation infrastructure teamwithin the SCM Optimization & Data Science unit. As such you will work in our cross-located expert team (Walldorf, Budapest) and operate and enhance our SAP gardener managed Kubernetes clusters.

In your role as Developer (Associate) you will be a vital contributor to the full development cycle by discovering requirements together with our customers and partners in industry, identifying the appropriate architecture, designing, implementing and testing the SCM Optimization services as well as maintaining it.

You have the opportunity to:

  • Operate and expand our SAP gardener managed Kubernetes clusters in multiple regions on different hyperscalers
  • Contribute as Golang microservice developer
  • Provide and configure necessary services, such as Redis, Postgres and Blob storages
  • Work with cloud technologies like Istio, ArgoCD, Helm

Come join us in reshaping the future of Optimization at SAP!

What you bring

  • Preferred field(s) of study: University degree in Computer Science or comparable qualifications
  • Knowledge in modern cloud architecture as well as software design patterns
  • Golang programming skills, including concepts such as concurrency with goroutines and channels, API development
  • Basic know-how of cloud delivery
  • Technology driven focus – ability to maintain a system from a container level
  • Experience with relational databases, ideally Postgres
  • Experience with Hyperscaler services, e.g. for compute and storage is an advantage
  • Experience in containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes Cluster architecture, building, deploying and operating cloud apps on Kubernetes. SAP Gardener, Istio and SAP BTP knowledge is an advantage.
  • Demonstrate result-driven attitude, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Good teamwork and communication skills
  • Ability to work in and across teams, countries and cultures
  • Fluent in verbal and written English and German

Meet the team

Our team develops modern planning solutions by using optimization and artificial intelligence methods that industrial companies worldwide use to plan and optimize their business.

The planning procedures are characterized by high scalability concerning the volume to be planned (procedure efficiency), broad functionality and seamless integrations into SAP applications. The solution will natively exploit SAP’s state-of-the-art capabilities in SAP Cloud Platform deployed on Kubernetes.

You can expect a quick onboarding and learning experience as well as a mentorship to ensure, that you get up-to-speed as-soon-as-possible. Within the team we count on self-motivation, continuous learning and helping each other and at the same time each can work on their own pace, which gives them flexibility to balance their professional and personal life


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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.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides 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: [email protected].

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.

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

Requisition ID: 433789 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid


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