(Junior to Mid) Backend Developer for Open-Source

 We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

The development center of SAP in Bulgaria plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1400 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and has recently welcomed new teams focusing on business applications. For its 24-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

What you`ll do

The team provides Platform as a Service and embedded Core Services for Cloud Foundry (CF) Runtime of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Developing, deploying and maintaining the corresponding services running in a cloud environment are core responsibilities of the team. The team believes and practices agile development methods, pair programming, Software Craftmanship, GitOps, Test-Driven-Development and works in an environment with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. Monitoring and Observability are other core practices focused by the team.

The Role

In this role you will contribute to open source projects of the Cloud Foundry Foundation and ensure that BTP Cloud Foundry Platform is running reliable and stable.

Being part of a highly motivated agile and self-managed team, you will care for code from your local machine to productive systems.

You will learn and apply new concepts, processes, and modern open-source technologies. The daily tasks will imply close collaboration with teams all over the world within the company and the Cloud Foundry Community.

What you bring 

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• Knowledge in at least one programming language on Python, Golang or Shell Scripts
• Familiar with agile methods, test-driven development, continuous integration and continous delivery
• Experience developing Cloud Services topics
• Background in Linux (BASH), Networking (HTTP, DNS, TCP, OSI) and Databases (SQL)
• Preferably cloud development or distributed systems experience and Cloud Platforms (e.g. SAP Business Technology Platform, Amazaon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud)
• Very good English language skills (verbal and written), German skills are a plus
• DevOps experience in test framework (e.g. Ginkgo, Py-/Unittest) and continuous integration tool (e.g. Jenkins, Concourse) is a plus

Meet your team

Within the team we count on self-motivation, continuous learning and helping each other, as well as on mentorship to ensure, that, especially new colleagues get up-to-speed as-soon-as-possible and at the same time can work on their own pace, which gives them flexibility to balance their professional and personal life. The collaborative nature of team enables you to continuously learn new technologies and adapt agile practice. We live the SAP cultures and celebrate successes, while having an open and constructive dialogue on continuous improvements, share knowledge and foster our team focus and team spirit.

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​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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
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Requisition ID: 402562  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.