Senior Platform Engineer

What you’ll do As a Senior Platform Engineer, contribute across design, coding, testing, operability, and quality assurance in a development team. assess and solve issues in new or existing code with high attention to detail, reliability, and efficiency. Collaborate closely with team members to ensure success. In your day-to-day, your tasks will be: Work on design, coding, and quality assurance tasks related to specific product features. Build reliable, production-ready platform capabilities and help drive engineering quality across the team. Engage in development activities using Java, Python, and Go, with Rust as an additional advantage. Collaborate within an agile team utilizing the Scrum framework to self-organize and achieve development goals. Mentor and guide junior developers to support their professional development and growth. Support Product Owners and Architects in technical discussions. Assist in building Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and researching potential technical solutions. What you bring Required skills Core engineering 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 development experience in Java, Python, and/or Go. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Ability to troubleshoot complex software issues using technical and product knowledge. Familiarity with design patterns, Clean Code principles, CI/CD, code review, and TDD is preferred. Platform, security, and operability Experience with cloud-native development and Kubernetes-based environments. Good understanding of networking concepts relevant to distributed systems, secure connectivity, and cloud environments. Experience with secure connectivity and platform engineering patterns, including OAuth 2.0, mTLS, proxy or tunnel-based architectures, and multi-tenant service design. 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, production hardening, and automated testing across unit, integration, and end-to-end scenarios. Knowledge of AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools, and the ability to use them effectively across the software development lifecycle. SAP and platform capability design Experience integrating with SAP backend systems such as SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA) and NetWeaver-based landscapes. Experience with REST API design and service workflows including enrollment, connection or session lifecycle, endpoint management, or related platform capabilities. Willingness to take ownership, drive new developments, and work creatively on challenging and innovative tasks following the highest technical standards. Demonstrates a high level of commitment, team spirit, flexibility, and initiative. Ability to quickly acquire new knowledge and skills. Nice to have Rust development experience 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. 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 extending and completing the SAP Data Platform with big data technologies to support different SAP Lines of Business, leveraging Apache Spark and object store technology to provide scalable computing and storage services, and integrating into SAP BTP and HANA Cloud & Data Lakehouse for a unified development and deployment experience. In the BDFS team, we have an agile and collaborative culture where knowledge sharing is fostered. Compensation Range Transparency : SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted annual combined range for this position is 148600-306300 USD. The actual amount offered will be within that range, dependent upon education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, and other factors. Any variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and an actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. See SAP benefits for eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. EEO and accessibility : SAP is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need accommodation or assistance to navigate the website or complete your application, please email Recruiting Operations Team: View email address on click.appcast.io. #J-18808-Ljbffr