Requisition ID: 458845
Work Area: Software-Design and Development
Expected Travel: 0%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Career Level: T3-3
Additional Locations: Original Posting Date: 08/17/2026
Job Title: Senior Developer
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Work Model: Hybrid work model
Purpose and Objective:
SAP America, Inc. seeks a Senior Developer at our Palo Alto, CA location responsible for engineering focusing on design, coding, testing, and quality assurance of specific SAP product features as part of a development team.
Expectations and Tasks:
Build SAP's Business Data Cloud and implement a highly available and scalable data platform infrastructure using cloud, SAP proprietary, and open-source technologies. Implement parts of a highly available and scalable data platform infrastructure leveraging, established SAP technologies. Solve complex problems in the distributed data processing domain - availability, scalability, performance, multiple consistency models. Collaborate with cross-functional product and engineering teams to deliver on a common vision and delight our customers. Champion best in class engineering methodologies and architectural practices within our organization.
Education and Occupational Experience:
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and six (6) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Employer will accept a 3 or 4 year Bachelor's degree. Alternatively, a master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Experience:
Experience must include four (4) years involving each of the following:
- Python/PySpark and at least two Java, Scala, C/C++, or Golang and their eco-system;
- Modern Database Management Systems and SAP HANA Cloud specifically, Postgres and MySQL;
- Cloud native data processing environments such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud and technologies including Spark, Flink, Hadoop and Kafka;
- Designing and implementing Kubernetes, Helm and microservices orchestration;
- Designing, building and maintaining CI/CD systems using Github Actions and Jenkins pipelines along with relevant plugins and extensions;
- GitOps model, self-healing, reconciliation and resilience;
- Agile practices and cloud native development approaches; and
- Leading small to medium sized projects spanning multiple time zones.
Travel: N/A.
This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the SAP Internal Employee Referral Policy.
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Requisition ID: 458845
Posted Date: Aug 17, 2026
Work Area: Software-Design and Development
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Expected Travel: 0%
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