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About the Role

SAP helps the world run better. We enable organizations to operate with purpose and agility, turning complexity into opportunity. Join us and help build the platforms that power intelligent enterprises worldwide.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team and lead the transformation of a legacy Java-based platform into a modern cloud-native, AI-native platform. This is a high-impact role for a seasoned engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure challenges, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring others in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

In this role, you will serve as a technical leader across platform, infrastructure, security, and data teams to architect and deliver foundational platform capabilities. You will define the technical direction for scalability, reliability, security, and developer productivity across the platform. You will lead the adoption of modern technologies and architectural patterns involving hyperscalers, APIs, service mesh, messaging frameworks, data platforms, GPUs, agents, and MCP-based services.

This is an ideal role for an engineer who wants to shape the technical vision and strategy for the systems and tooling that power modern enterprise platforms.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and architect the modernization of a legacy Java-based platform into a cloud-native and AI-native architecture
• Define technical strategy and design patterns for shared platform capabilities across data, roles, permissions, security, infrastructure, and service communication
• Architect and own platform services involving API gateways, service mesh, feature flags, secrets management, and service discovery
• Drive technical decisions and set standards across platform capabilities such as Vault, Consul, database frameworks, messaging systems, and integration services
• Design and architect event-driven and messaging patterns using technologies such as Kafka at enterprise scale
• Lead platform infrastructure strategy for modern AI workloads, including infrastructure patterns related to GPUs, agents, and MCP-connected services
• Own end-to-end integration architecture with Databricks and enterprise data platforms
• Define and enforce access control, security patterns, configuration management, and platform reliability standards
• Lead the development of internal tooling, documentation, and reusable frameworks that improve the developer experience across the organization
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; conduct design reviews and drive engineering excellence
• Collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams including infrastructure, security, data, and application engineering
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for critical platform services
  
  

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You are a technical leader who drives clarity in ambiguous situations and raises the bar for engineering quality.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platforms
• Expert proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), APIs, microservices architecture, system design, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)
• Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production environments
• Strong experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with high availability requirements
• Proven track record of leading technical projects from design through delivery
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, GitOps, and DevOps best practices
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive engineering culture improvements
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting enterprise platform technologies at scale serving thousands of users or services
• Deep hands-on experience with API gateways, service mesh (Istio/Envoy), Kafka, Vault, Consul, feature flags, or secrets management in production
• Experience designing and operating AI infrastructure, agentic systems, MCP servers, or LLM platform support at scale
• Extensive experience with Kafka, Databricks, data platforms, or large-scale integration frameworks
• Track record of building developer platforms, CLIs, internal SDKs, or platform-as-a-product offerings
• Proven success modernizing legacy systems and leading platform migrations with minimal disruption
• Deep expertise with observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), SRE practices, and incident management
• Experience contributing to or leading architecture review boards, RFCs, or technical strategy documents
  
  

Where You Belong

Be part of a team that is shaping the future of enterprise technology at SAP.

• Culture of Collaboration: Partner with talented SAP engineers and leaders who value technical excellence. Grow professionally through leadership opportunities, mentoring, and career development support.
• Impact-driven Work: Make a significant impact by shaping platform capabilities that power products used by thousands of enterprises worldwide. Your architectural decisions will influence the direction of the platform for years to come.
• Gain Visibility: Build relationships with senior leaders and peers across teams and functions. Drive technical strategy in a global, fast-paced environment. Open doors for future leadership opportunities within SAP and beyond.
  
  

What You’ll Gain

• Technical leadership over critical platform components in a large-scale modernization effort
• Opportunity to define the architectural direction of enterprise-grade cloud and infrastructure platforms
• Experience leading shared platform capabilities used by multiple engineering teams across the organization
• Influence over how modern platforms are designed to support security, scale, reliability, and AI-native workloads
• Senior engineering career growth within a global technology leader

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.  

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. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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Requisition ID: 451461  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid