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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. 

 

 

 

What you`ll do 

 

SAP aims to develop an Open Reference Architecture (ORA) for a secure and sustainable cloud edge infrastructure that includes intelligent optimization methods for data transparency and security. This reference infrastructure, aspired by the EU IPCEI-CIS (Important Project of Common European Interest – Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services) program, shall be the basis for future software development and a prerequisite for a pan-European cloud edge infrastructure. 

SAP will be working on the publicly funded project with both experienced employees from its existing workforce but also new hires. Therefore, we are looking for suitable candidates. If you are interested in Cloud Operating System development and operation, the usage and further development of Open-Source solutions and standards, interoperability, efficiency, and sustainability you should consider applying.

Summary:
IronCore is SAP’s next generation Open Source Cloud Infrastructure based on Kubernetes. We manage physical servers, storage and network infrastructure with Kubernetes controllers – providing a modern Cloud infrastructure to SAP developers and customers. IronCore uses a modern Software Defined Everything approach as well as hardware offloading capabilities to provide a flexible, yet performant base layer for application deployments. 

 

 

The Role:
As a Senior Developer (f/m/d) you will contribute to our virtualization, network and storage solutions by writing code in Rust and/or Go. We move towards rust-vmm based virtualization technology and build our own Rust-based Linux init system. You will participate in various sub-projects of our infrastructure stack. Most of your code will be open source. 

 

 

What you bring 

3+ years of professional coding experience in C/C++, Rust or Go  In depth knowledge about and experience working with the Linux Kernel, Linux containers and virtualization  Experience with cloud native development, cloud computing, distributed systems and container management technologies such as Kubernetes Good understanding of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, TLS)  Strong interpersonal and communication skills  Ideally you have already contributed to open source projects and provide your GitHub account name with your application 

 

 

 

Meet your team

 

The IronCore team is a diverse group of software engineers and infrastructure experts with a deep knowledge about network, Linux, Kubernetes and virtualization. We are distributed over Munich and Walldorf. Joining our team means being part of a dynamic, supportive environment where your work will have a direct impact on the future of cloud infrastructure at SAP and beyond.

 

You will work either in Walldorf (SAP headquarters) or our location Garching near Munich.

 

 

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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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

 

Requisition ID: 419404  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   |   #LI-Hybrid
 

 

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