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

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

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. 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.

What you'll do:

Summary:

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.

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 a path to production, observability, and metrics
• Automating tasks, especially self-healing mechanisms of the platform
• Supporting development teams in their daily operational work
• Checking out new technologies and introducing them to others to promote innovation and create business value
• Explaining technical problems and understanding business requirements
• 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:

• 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 an engineer
• Experienced in Go, Java, Python, or Bash/Power Shell supplemented by having experience in managing cloud infrastructure (e.g. with Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, etc.)
• 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)
• Good knowledge of 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 is determined to improve on quality all the time
• Very good written and verbal English language skills

Furthermore, nice-to-have skills are:

• 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

Meet the team:

The Technology & Innovation (T&I) 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.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. 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.

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. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Requisition ID: 398879 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Part-Time, or Regular Full-Time