Senior Developer

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