Platform Engineer

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At SAP, we keep 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. 

 

What you'll do

 

The SAP Cloud Application Event Hub team within the SAP Business Technology Platform is seeking a Platform Engineer to help design, build, and operate scalable cloud-based applications.

In this role, you will bring a strong passion for cloud-native development and operations, working closely within an Agile (Scrum) team to deliver high-quality, maintainable solutions. You take pride in writing clean, efficient code and producing clear documentation that supports long-term scalability and collaboration.

As a Platform Engineer,  you will design, deliver, and operate innovative, scalable, secure, and reliable platform infrastructure, tools, frameworks, and services that enable the successful development and operation of enterprise-scale applications. You will drive innovation and automation, ensuring streamlined and efficient delivery and continuous improvement across platform capabilities.

As part of our development team, you will have abundant opportunities to demonstrate your abilities and learn new skills.

 

Your responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate scalable and secure platform infrastructure, tools, framework, and services to support enterprise-scale application needs.
• Build and maintain enterprise CICD pipeline and GitOps operational framework.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, design and cloud operations) to understand requirements and translate them into robust platform solutions.
• Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts to streamline delivery and operations, and infrastructure management.
• Ensure platform reliability, security, and performance through continuous monitoring, optimization, robust security practices and having sufficient observability in place.
• Provide technical documentation, guidance, and support on platform capabilities and best practices.
• Be an active member of self-empowered Scrum teams producing software using Agile principles and engineering-driven decisions
• Be technically proactive, influencing the team with innovative and creative ideas
• Have the flexibility to adapt to technologies and change directions quickly
• Perform and participate in peer code reviews
• Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation with the team

 

What you bring: 

 

• Be technically proactive, influencing the team with innovative and creative ideas
• Have the flexibility to adapt to technologies and change directions quickly
• Solid understanding and practice of Agile software development
• Enjoy working in a collaborative team, fast-paced and highly dynamic work environment
• Willingness to take responsibility and ownership for your work and the team’s work without waiting for detailed instructions
• Must have a passion for delivering high-quality, fully tested and documented code
• Willingness to continuously learn new technologies and methodologies
• Strong team-oriented interpersonal skills, including humility and being open to giving and receiving feedback
• 4+ years of experience with operating cloud services running in a cloud environment (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience  in building and maintaining enterprise CI/CD pipeline
• Experience working in a containerized cloud environment using Kubernetes
• Experience working in an environment with continuous delivery/continuous integration
• BA/BS degree in a computer related field
• Good verbal and written English

 

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and related service mesh technologies like Istio, Linkerd or Envoy
• Experience with enterprise application integration and/or data integration
• Experience developing and operating

• • Kafka or other modern messaging technology
  • SAP  Business Technology Platform
  • SAP  Hyperspace, Piper and Gardener
  • Java or Go programming language or equivalent and writing concurrent, high-volume, transactional code

• • Streaming applications
  • Microservice architectures
  • Distributed architectures

 

Meet the team

Our team is energetic, forward-thinking, and deeply committed to innovation. We are at the forefront of cloud technology, building event-driven integration solutions that enable seamless eventing capabilities across SAP cloud applications.

We foster a collaborative environment where engineers are empowered to tackle complex technical challenges, continuously learn, and contribute to impactful, cutting-edge solutions in a fast-paced Agile setting.

 

Please note that this position is based in Montreal and is not open to other locations. Candidates must be able to work from the office in accordance with SAP’s current policy.

 

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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.

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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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SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 77500-166200CAD . The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount, and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. A summary of benefits and eligibility requirements can be found by clicking this link:

Due to the nature of the role, which involves global interactions with SAP entities, as well as with employees and stakeholders in Canada, functional proficiency in English is required for positions based in the Quebec.

 

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Requisition ID: 450057 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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