Senior) Developer (f​/m​/d) for Sovereign Cloud Onsite ​/ ApeiroRA ​/ EU AI Projects

(Senior) Developer (f/m/d) for Sovereign Cloud Onsite / ApeiroRA / EU AI Projects

We help the world run better
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.

Location requirement :
This position requires the candidate to be physically present in the Berlin, Dresden, Munich or St. Leon Rot office. Please ensure you meet this location requirement before applying. SAP supports relocation within Germany for this position and will assist successful candidates with the moving process.

• Build enterprise cloud infrastructure that provides European data sovereignty and hyperscaler-grade capabilities. You'll work on SAP Cloud Infrastructure, solving complex distributed systems challenges at scale: multi-region networking, container orchestration, observability, and the APIs that connect them.
• You will contribute to building a sovereign, privacy-first AI cloud for the European market that makes it easy to securely train, fine-tune, and deploy foundation and domain models with strict data residency and isolation.
• You'll develop solutions using Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies, tackling problems like:
  How do you autoscale thousands of workloads across clusters? How do you build resilient control planes and service meshes? How do you design APIs that handle massive traffic spikes?
• Your work will power SAP's production systems and thousands of customer environments. You'll contribute to infrastructure that enables organizations to run mission‑critical applications with the performance and reliability they expect from leading cloud platforms.
• In your role as Developer, you'll contribute to building SAP Cloud Infrastructure through hands‑on development of enterprise cloud services that provide European data sovereignty and hyperscaler-grade capabilities. You'll implement features and components for distributed systems that handle significant scale, working on Kubernetes orchestration, networking, and storage solutions that power customer environments.
• You'll develop and maintain cloud-native infrastructure components using Go, Kubernetes, and related CNCF technologies, solving practical challenges in multi‑region deployments, API development, and system integration. Your work will involve implementing features for auto‑scaling clusters, building resilient workloads, and creating APIs that handle substantial traffic loads.
• Contributing to production systems that serve SAP's customer base, you'll help build infrastructure that enables organizations to run mission‑critical applications with enterprise‑grade performance and reliability. Your code will support European organizations in maintaining data sovereignty while accessing powerful cloud capabilities that compete with leading cloud platforms.

• Programming Mastery:
  Strong experience developing in Go or Python, with a solid understanding of concurrent programming, APIs, and distributed systems design
• Kubernetes and/or Openstack expertise:
  • Kubernetes (satisfies requirement):
    Hands‑on experience operating and developing for Kubernetes in production (cluster management, workload orchestration, and debugging distributed applications); CKA/CKAD/CKS and experience building Kubernetes operators/controllers are strong pluses.
  • Open Stack (satisfies requirement):
    Strong Open Stack development/operations background (e.g., Nova/Neutron/Octavia/Cinder/Keystone, networking/storage troubleshooting, upgrades/automation); experience integrating with Kubernetes is a plus. Hands‑on experience deploying, tuning, and operating Ceph in production, ideally as storage backends for Open Stack services.
• Cloud‑Native Ecosystem:
  Familiarity with the broader CNCF landscape (Helm, Prometheus, Flux, Istio, etc.), Linux fundamentals, and…