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What you`ll do

Join platform engineering at SAP LeanIX as Senior Backend Engineer . Our mission: deliver highly reliable, performant and modern platform services as foundation for all product teams.

The role:

• Take ownership for our platform services around user & tenant management, authentication and authorization
• Architect and evolve the services to meet global scale and strict performance targets (high throughput, low latency, fault tolerance).
• Build robust, scalable RESTful and event-driven APIs.
• Design and implement secure, standards-compliant identity provisioning, auth flows and access controls that support multi-tenant needs.
• Make observability a first-class feature: implement metrics, distributed tracing, SLOs/SLIs and actionable alerts so issues are detected and resolved quickly.

What is our stack?

• Kotlin/Java microservices with Spring Boot, Dropwizard
• PostgreSQL, Event Streams (Event Carried State Transfer)
• RESTful APIs, GraphQL
• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Instana
• Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes and Istio
• Modern CI/CD: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

What you bring

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Passion for platform services (tenant & user management, authentication, authorization...).
• Proficiency with Java/Kotlin building and operating scalable backend services.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL at scale.
• Solid experience with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).
• Production-focused mindset: observability, CI/CD, testing, reliability and performance optimization.
• Clear, open communicator who collaborates well across product and engineering.

Additionally:

• Identify with and live our Engineering Values
• Deliver results as a team
• Encourage knowledge sharing
  
  Meet your team

You’ll join Atlas — a cross-functional team of Front- and Back-End Engineers, an Engineering Manager, a Product Manager and a UX Designer. Atlas owns foundational platform domains used across the LeanIX product (tenant & user lifecycle/management, authentication and authorization). Your work will shape the baseline for all product teams: designing secure, reliable, and scalable services that other teams depend on.

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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 world.

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Requisition ID: 436503 | 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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