Description:
PURPOSE AND OBEJECTIVES
The SAP Analytics Cloud Application Platform organization is looking for people to help with our next generation cloud architecture, with a focus on back-end topics involving the development and management of scalable microservices. Are you passionate about building robust, secure and scalable distributed systems within a rapidly growing SaaS solution? Do you relish working in a collaborative environment with world-class engineers on a wide array of technologies? If so, we want to hear from you!
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
Because we are working on new, potentially complex architecture, we need someone resourceful, eager to learn, creative with problem-solving, and strong in collaborative skills. We're looking for someone who can:
- Design, develop, lead and deliver high-quality features on a robust technology stack based on cloud design patterns.
- Work closely with our engineering and operations team to build, test and deploy your solutions to production, as well as monitor and safeguard consumption by our enterprise-scale customers.
- Take the initiative to identify gaps and opportunities in our product and technology stack
- Collaborate with teams locally and globally, in locations such as Germany, France, and India, to contribute to key deliverables that provide innovative business value to our customers
- Assess new technology projects and tools, and migrate our environment to new versions to keep pace with rapid changes in the industry.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS/ SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Degree in Computer Science or Software/Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- Solid understanding in data structures, algorithms and principles of object-oriented design
- Knowledge of databases, web application servers, and web technologies
- Experience developing production-ready code using Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, or similar languages
- Proficiency in cloud-native development technologies and architectures commonly used on platforms such as Kubernetes/Cloud Foundry, AWS/Azure/GCP
- Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team, strong sense of initiative, urgency, and ownershipExperience with the following would be an asset:
- Common cloud-native technologies and platforms such AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Foundry, and OpenStack
- Microservice development at scale and associated challenges, such as high availability, scalability, performance, observability, security, testability, and cost-efficiency
- Troubleshooting and debugging complex software systems in production environments, followed by recommendations through root cause analysis
- Using or operating HANA or HANA Cloud for web applications
- Containerization application technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Leveraging cloud monitoring tooling for operating services (Elastic, Splunk, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Dynatrace, Open Telemetry)