About the Company
SAP keeps it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
Responsibilities
- Act as a technical multiplier for the Infrastructure-as-Data paradigm shift, contributing directly to evolving the platform's core capabilities and enriching the Kubernetes API
- Engage in contributing open-source projects like Flux, Argo, External Secrets Operator, KRO and more to enable declarative infrastructure management
- Design and engineer a robust, automated bootstrapping control plane to ensure secure, compliant, and efficient software lifecycle management, particularly in the context of sovereign cloud and EU AI Cloud enforcement
- Improve engineering standards, enhance project visibility, and actively seek opportunities for collaborations across the community
- Actively engage with and contribute to the internal community and external cloud-native ecosystem, ensuring the platform's success and providing technical support to internal stakeholders
Requirements
- Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities, with a collaborative, proactive mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement
- Experience in community engagement and open-source contributions, ability to clearly communicate and present complex technical concepts
- A distinguished university degree in Computer Science or a closely related field; or equivalent work experience
- Strong hands-on technical skills with 3+ years of experience in full-time software engineering related roles and a strong focus on interacting and working with code
- Solid understanding of container technologies, and the broader cloud-native ecosystem, with familiarity with the CNCF landscape
- Confidence navigating the Kubernetes ecosystem and elaborating its extension concepts including CRDs, the operator pattern or extension API Servers
- High proficiency in English, both written and spoken, and German language skills are beneficial
Benefits
- Constant learning and skill growth opportunities
- Great benefits package
- Supportive team that wants you to succeed
- Flexible working models and focus on well-being
- Inclusive culture that celebrates diversity