Product Expert (m/f/d)

SAP SE; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading cloud technology company in Germany is seeking a Development Manager to lead engineering teams in building SAP Cloud Infrastructure. This role involves guiding technical strategy and team execution for enterprise solutions while ensuring robust systems for high-scale applications. Candidates should have significant experience in software development and team leadership, with strong skills in Go and cloud technologies. The position offers opportunities for innovation in a collaborative environment focused on continuous growth.

Leistungen

Constant learning and skill growth

Great benefits

Support for relocation within Germany

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of software development experience with 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Proven ability to drive architectural decisions and align goals with cloud sovereignty objectives.
• Strong coaching skills in open source technologies and distributed systems.

Aufgaben

• Lead engineering teams building SAP Cloud Infrastructure.
• Coordinate development of distributed systems with mission-critical reliability.
• Establish engineering practices for enterprise-grade performance.

Kenntnisse

Hands-on experience with Go, Rust, Python, Java

Microservices understanding

Leadership skills

Excellent soft skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Jobbeschreibung

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.

Location requirement : This position requires the candidate to be physically present in the Berlin, Dresden, Munich or St. Leon Rot office. Please ensure you meet this location requirement before applying. SAP supports relocation within Germany for this position and will assist successful candidates with the moving process.

What You'll Build

Build enterprise cloud infrastructure that provides European data sovereignty and hyperscaler-grade capabilities. You'll work on SAP Cloud Infrastructure, solving complex distributed systems challenges at scale: multi-region networking, container orchestration, storage systems, and the APIs that connect them.

You'll develop solutions using Go, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, tackling problems like: How do you auto-scale thousands of containers across regions? How do you build resilient storage systems? How do you design APIs that handle massive traffic spikes?

Your work will power SAP's production systems and thousands of customer environments. You'll contribute to infrastructure that enables organizations to run mission-critical applications with the performance and reliability they expect from leading cloud platforms.

In your role as Development Manager, you'll lead engineering teams building SAP Cloud Infrastructure, guiding technical strategy and team execution for enterprise cloud services that provide European data sovereignty and hyperscaler-grade capabilities. You'll coordinate the development of distributed systems that handle massive scale, serving thousands of customer environments with mission-critical reliability.

Your leadership will balance technical excellence with delivery timelines, fostering innovation while ensuring robust solutions for complex infrastructure challenges like multi-region networking, container orchestration at scale, and storage systems that handle massive traffic spikes. You'll guide teams working with Go, OpenStack, and Kubernetes to build production systems that compete with leading cloud platforms.

Managing teams that serve SAP's global customer base, you'll establish engineering practices and drive strategic decisions that enable organizations to run mission-critical applications with enterprise-grade performance and reliability. Your team's work will directly impact how European organizations maintain data sovereignty while accessing world-class cloud capabilities that rival hyperscaler offerings.

You will contribute to building a sovereign, privacy-first AI cloud for the European market that makes it easy to securely train, fine-tune, and deploy foundation and domain models with strict data residency and isolation.

What You Bring

• Technical Foundation: Hands-on experience with Go, Rust, Python, Java and deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native patterns
• Management Excellence: 8+ years software development with 3+ years leading engineering teams of 5-15 developers across multiple projects
• Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to align team goals with European cloud sovereignty objectives and drive architectural decisions for vendor lock-in elimination
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Experience working with product, design, and business stakeholders while managing team budgets and resource allocation
• People Development: Strong coaching skills with track record of developing talent in open source technologies and distributed systems
• Change Management: Success leading teams through technical transformations and communicating with executives and European partners
• Security and Compliance: Awareness of industry standards related to security and compliance and experience integrating regulatory requirements into architectural patterns
• Cultural Adaptability: Experience working across cultures and languages with strong communication skills for diverse, distributed teams
• Soft skills: Excellent presentation, communication and problem-solving skills, have a thorough way of working with accuracy, take proactive initiatives, self-dependent and structured mode of working, high level of commitment and reliability, ready to work in a constantly changing, floating environment, fun working in a multinational team

Where You Belong

You’ll join PlusOne Central Engineering, where innovation meets collaboration. Our culture values engineering excellence, continuous learning, and diverse perspectives. We embrace modern practices, support career growth, and maintain work-life balance while building enterprise-scale solutions that drive digital transformation. During the application and selection process, candidates will be informed which manager they will be working with upon hiring. We look forward to your application!

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.

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