Senior Software Engineer in Walldorf, Germany

SAP workload on the Azure platform is strategic for Microsoft’s customers. Microsoft Azure is chosen by many partners like SAP and customers to host SAP centric solutions in public cloud. SAP is hosting SaaS and PaaS offers for their customers on Azure.

We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to join our team SAP Engineering team. Our team is focused on enabling, helping and supporting SAP to integrate SAP software, SaaS, and PaaS services into the Azure platform. Beyond that the team develops solution and reference architectures for SAP workload on the Azure platform.

Reliability is top of mind when running SAP on Azure. The SAP Engineering team is also engaged in designing automated tests, capable of detecting gating regressions in the platform, which can adversely impact SAP on Azure.

The team is spread globally with two main locations of the SAP headquarter in Walldorf in Germany, the Microsoft headquarter in Redmond, WA. The role will be located in the SAP headquarter in Walldorf, Germany. Main communication language of the team is German.

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Responsibilities

• You will be responsible to work with different line of business within SAP which deploy and integrate their SaaS and PaaS applications and platforms in Azure using Kubernetes or other open source frameworks.

• You will work on analyzing and investigate deployments, develop solutions and work with the Azure Compute Engineering teams to improve and enhance the experience of SAP hosting and deploying their SaaS and PaaS services on the Azure platform.

• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, GoLang, Ruby or Python

• OR equivalent experience

• Experience with:

• Owning a service or product, feature planning and coordinating feature development across multiple teams

• Using Kubernetes and Terraform as frameworks for building cloud native applications

• Cloud environments, preferably Azure

• Working with community driven OSS projects driven on Github

• Able to communicate in English in written and oral form

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of authentication methods in cloud native environments, like OAUTH, SAML, MFA, SSO, Entra ID, certificate authorities

• Experience with monitoring and telemetry in cloud native environments

• Experience in Kubernetes architecture, setup/installation and the operation in production environments

• Able to communicate in German in written and oral form

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