SAP iXp Intern - Platform Infrastructure Engineer - SUMMER 2026

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What You’ll Build

 

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers. This is more than an internship; it’s the foundation for a career built on connection, creativity, and impact.

 

Position title: SAP iXp Intern – Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Location: San Ramon, CA (Hybrid - 3x/Week) 

Expected start date: June 1, 2026

Duration: 10 Weeks

 

We are looking for a Platform Infrastructure Engineer Intern to join our Infrastructure Engineering team and support the transformation of a legacy Java-based platform into a modern cloud-native, AI-native platform. This internship is a great opportunity for a student who is excited about infrastructure, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and the future of intelligent enterprise technology.

In this role, you will work with engineers across platform, infrastructure, security, and data teams to help modernize foundational platform capabilities. You will contribute to efforts that improve scalability, reliability, security, and developer productivity across the platform. You will also gain exposure to modern technologies and architectural patterns involving hyperscalers, APIs, service mesh, messaging frameworks, data platforms, GPUs, agents, and MCP-based services.

This is an ideal role for someone who wants hands-on experience with the systems and tooling that power modern enterprise platforms.

 

What You’ll Do

• Support the modernization of a legacy Java-based platform into a cloud-native and AI-native architecture

• Assist in building and improving shared platform capabilities across data, roles, permissions, security, infrastructure, and service communication

• Contribute to platform services involving API gateways, service mesh, feature flags, secrets management, and service discovery

• Support engineering work across platform capabilities such as Vault, Consul, database frameworks, messaging systems, and integration services

• Assist with event-driven and messaging patterns using technologies such as Kafka

• Help support platform readiness for modern AI workloads, including infrastructure patterns related to GPUs, agents, and MCP-connected services

• Contribute to integration efforts with Databricks and enterprise data platforms

• Assist in improving access control, security patterns, configuration management, and platform reliability

• Help create internal tooling, documentation, and reusable frameworks that improve the developer experience

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including infrastructure, security, data, and application engineering

 

 

What You’ll Bring

 

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

 

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

• Interest in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer platforms

• Familiarity with one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript

• Basic understanding of cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, system design, or infrastructure concepts

• Exposure through coursework, projects, or prior internships to topics such as: Cloud computing, distrubuted systems, containers,