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

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What you'll do : Summary :

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.

If you are highly motivated, self-driven, enjoy working with international teams, and are 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 a 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 to 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 :

• 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.) 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 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.

T&I is also responsible for SAP’s overall platform and technology development such as the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP Core).

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.

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We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

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