Platform Engineer: Scalable Infra & APIs

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP is seeking a Platform Engineer in Newport Beach, CA to design, develop, and operate scalable platform infrastructure and services for enterprise-scale needs.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, build automation, and ensure security and reliability through monitoring and best practices. The role requires expertise in SAP HANA, SAP BTP, cloud-native microservices, and API ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and five (5) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• Experience must include three (3) years involving each of the following: Developing and maintaining enterprise applications using SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Spark, and SAP BTP.
• Designing and optimizing data models, queries, and workloads for SAP HANA Datalake and HANA.
• Implementing and managing job scheduling and workload orchestration using SAP BTP Scheduler or Temporal.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining services integrated with SAP Cloud ALM.
• Developing and optimizing event-driven applications and data pipelines using real-time messaging with Kafka and Redis to integrate SAP and non-SAP systems.
• Developing and managing OpenAPI specifications via SAP Business Accelerator Hub for enterprise-scale API discovery, publishing, and consumption.
• Configuring API gateways to efficiently handle large volumes of requests, including routing, load balancing, caching, and monitoring.
• Building and enhancing cloud-native microservices and REST APIs using Java, Kotlin, Golang, and Python.
• Troubleshooting and optimizing distributed data transformation and processing pipelines in SAP HANA Spark.
• Designing and deploying containerized applications using SAP Gardener, with service-to-service communication managed by Istio or other service mesh frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into robust platform solutions.
• Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts to streamline delivery and operations, and infrastructure management.
• Ensure platform reliability, security, and performance through continuous monitoring, optimization, and robust security practices.
• Provide technical documentation, guidance, and support on platform capabilities and best practices.

Skills

SAP HANA

SAP HANA Cloud

SAP HANA Spark

SAP BTP

Data modeling

Event-driven

REST APIs

Java

Kotlin

Golang

Python

Kafka

Redis

OpenAPI

API gateways

Containerization

Istio

Gardener

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SAP Gardener

Istio

Temporal

Job description

SAP is seeking a Platform Engineer in Newport Beach, CA to design, develop, and operate scalable platform infrastructure and services for enterprise-scale needs.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, build automation, and ensure security and reliability through monitoring and best practices. The role requires expertise in SAP HANA, SAP BTP, cloud-native microservices, and API ecosystems.