Senior Platform Engineer - SAP Integration Suite - Integration Cell

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.     WHAT YOU'LL BUILD:   As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will define technical direction, drive architectural decisions across the platform, represent the team in cross-org discussions, and raise the bar for engineering quality and security. The scope is expanding to include AI Gateway capabilities and MCP server management, positioning Integration Cell as the unified runtime for both traditional integration and AI-native workloads — making this a high-growth, forward-looking platform at the intersection of enterprise integration and AI infrastructure.   Role Expectations

Architect and lead the development of critical, large-scale components of Integration Cell runtime Own technical strategy — decision making, define interfaces, set standards Drive platform-wide security, scalability, and reliability initiatives with measurable outcomes Act as a technical escalation point for complex production issues and customer-facing challenges Act as a force multiplier — raise the technical bar through design reviews, mentorship, and establishing engineering best practices Influence product roadmap by proactively identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities Collaborate with Architects, Product Managers, and peer teams across SAP Business AI Platform

WHAT YOU BRING:   Core Engineering

Expert-level development skills in Go / Java / Node.js Deep, proven experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture at scale Ability to make and defend architectural tradeoffs; experience with system design across multiple teams

Cloud & Containerization

Docker, Kubernetes, Helm — production-grade, multi-tenant workload management Kubernetes security: RBAC, Pod Security Admission, secrets management, network policies Container security: image scanning, supply chain security (SBOM, signing) Policy-as-code: OPA / Gatekeeper for centrally enforcing security and governance rules across clusters — pod security, image provenance, resource constraints, and tenant isolation

Infrastructure & Cloud Security

AWS / Azure / GCP / OpenStack — hands-on cloud infrastructure experience Identity & Access: IAM, least-privilege, workload identity, federated authentication Data security: encryption at rest and in transit, key management (KMS/HSM), secrets rotation Networking security: TLS/mTLS, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), zero-trust architecture, private endpoints Threat & compliance: security benchmarks (CIS, NIST), vulnerability management, audit logging FIPS 140-2/140-3 awareness for cryptographic compliance in regulated environments Hybrid cloud security: secure connectivity across on-prem and multi-cloud environments

Application & Runtime Security

Threat modeling — identify and design against attack surfaces early in the SDLC Secure coding practices, OWASP awareness, input validation at service boundaries Tenant isolation security: network, compute, and data layer separation in multi-tenant environments Shift-left security: integrating security reviews and tooling into development workflows

DevOps

Jenkins, Concourse, Argo CD — CI/CD pipelines and GitOps Secure pipelines: secrets scanning, SAST/DAST, dependency vulnerability checks

Monitoring

Dynatrace or equivalent (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger) Logging, tracing, alerting design for multi-tenant environments; SLO/SLI practices

Integration & API Security

REST / SOAP, API gateway patterns API