(Mid to Senior) Go and Kubernetes Developer for Open-Source project Gardener, Observability Area

 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 1700 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and business applications. Most recently, SAP Labs Bulgaria expanded in the topics of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. For its 25-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

What you’ll do

Gardener team is adopting the Kubernetes open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized SAP solutions and business applications. Evolving and enhancing the open source project Gardener as SAP’s way to provide a homogeneous and universal Kubernetes-based container management is the key deliverable of this team, in close collaboration with the teams in other SAP locations. Project Gardener is providing solutions to run and orchestrate Kubernetes clusters on public cloud, hybrid, or SAP owned infrastructures for a variety of enterprise use cases.

If you are interested in cloud development, based on cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, or you have always wanted to be part of an active open source community, this is the job for you. With us, you will find an inspiring and professional environment for your learning and growth. Working in our technically skilled team located in Sofia means you will design, develop, and run a Kubernetes cloud service used by numerous SAP solutions. We emphasize teamwork and a trust-based working model. Collaboration with other teams in an international environment will be a regular part of your job.

What you bring

We are looking for a motivated, self-driven and team-oriented colleague with a strong technical foundation around software engineering, cloud methodologies, containers, and Kubernetes. In detail, you bring (some of) the following qualifications:

• University degree in computer science or related field
• Hands-on development experience with Golang
• Advanced understanding of Linux containers, Kubernetes, and related cloud native technologies
• Experience with logging and observability stacks, ideally based on some of these: FluentBit, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, VictoriaLogs, VictoriaMetrics
• Experience with Open Telemetry is beneficial
• Experience with Kubernetes extension concepts like CRDs, operator pattern, dynamic admission control, extension API-Servers etc. is beneficial
• Experience with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP or OpenStack is beneficial
• The ability to troubleshoot complex issues, think critically, and find innovative solutions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a team-oriented, collaborative, self-driven and proactive mindset, affinity for continuous improvement procedures, emphasizing clean code, quality and system efficiency, enthusiasm for technology, ability to discuss and present technical concepts, and pleasure to work within an international environment
• Fluency both written and spoken in English
• 5+ years of experience in a development organization (for senior).

Meet your team

We, from the Gardener team, are leaving a mark with our contributions in some of the hottest open-source projects, building the backbone of a huge portfolio of products and services within and outside SAP.
Being our colleague, you will…

• Do research and prototyping
• Design, develop, test, and deliver robust and scalable software
• Engage in CNCF/Kubernetes community SIGs and Working Groups.
• Regularly share your knowledge and achievements with colleagues in and around the Cloud Native ecosystem

Curious about Gardener and the team? You can find us on Github, Slack, X or on our YouTube channel.

WORK EXPERIENCE

If you’d like to become part of our Gardener team, just apply and you may be offered a position according to your current working experience and expertise.
Students are welcome.

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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.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 410336  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.