Platform Engineer - Java Backend Developer

Platform Engineer- JAVA- (4-8 yrs.)

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The Big Data Fabric Services — BDFS team is part of SAP HANA & Persistency and enables SAP Lines of Business and customers to consume scalable, secure, and reliable cloud storage and platform services.

We are looking for a Developer / Platform Engineer with strong backend development skills and working knowledge of cloud-native application development.

The role is suitable for an experienced engineer who can contribute independently to development, troubleshooting, quality, and delivery of platform services.

This is not a data scientist role. The team builds and operates platform services that enable scalable, secure, and reliable data storage and access.

THE PRODUCT

The SAP Object Store service on SAP Business Technology Platform — SAP BTP lets applications store and manage objects, including creation, upload, download, and deletion. The service works with IaaS layers such as Azure Blob Storage, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform.

SAP Object Store helps simplify storage and retrieval of large files and BLOBs from applications. It supports object storage across cloud providers and provides secure, highly available, and scalable storage capabilities.

As part of SAP HANA & Persistency / Big Data Fabric Services, the Object Store team contributes to scalable and cost-effective storage services, cloud platform integrations, service lifecycle flows, reliability, and secure multi-tenant operations.

WHAT YOU’LL BUILD-

As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for design, coding, testing, debugging, and quality assurance activities in a development team.

In your day-to-day work, your tasks will include:

• Work on design, coding, testing, and quality assurance tasks related to Object Store product features.
• Develop backend services and platform components using Java and related technologies.
• Contribute to cloud platform services running on SAP BTP and hyperscaler environments.
• Work on service lifecycle flows such as provisioning, deprovisioning, binding, credentials, configuration, and integration topics.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex software issues in new or existing code.
• Work with high attention to detail, reliability, scalability, and operational quality.
• Contribute to unit testing, integration testing, automation, and quality improvements.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines, code review processes, clean code practices, and test-driven development practices.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, dev managers and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
• Work in an agile team that uses the Scrum framework to self-organize and work towards development goals.
• Take ownership of assigned technical topics and drive them independently with guidance when needed.
• Contribute to maintainability, observability, reliability, and operational readiness of platform services.
• Explore and apply AI-assisted development practices where relevant to improve productivity, quality, documentation, and engineering efficiencY

WHAT YOU BRING

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Analysis, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or related technical fields.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in backend development, platform engineering, or cloud-native application development.
• Advanced or fluent English.
• Strong programming skills.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java development.
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, space complexity, and run-time complexity.
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming and backend service development.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native application development or cloud platform services.
• Working knowledge of at least one cloud or platform environment such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Good understanding of REST APIs, service integrations, and distributed application concepts.
• Ability to design, implement, test, and troubleshoot software components independently.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex software issues by leveraging technical and product knowledge.
• Familiarity with design patterns, clean code, code review, CI/CD, and test-driven development.
• Knowledge of software quality assurance and test methodologies, including unit testing and integration testing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to quickly learn new areas of knowledge.
• Willingness to take ownership, drive new developments, and work creatively on challenging technical topics.
• High level of commitment, team spirit, flexibility, and initiative.
• Openness to adopt AI-assisted engineering tools and practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and day-to-day engineering workflows.
• Willingness to work from the Bangalore office as per team and company norms.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with Spring Boot or similar Java backend frameworks.
• Experience with cloud storage or object storage services such as AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage.
• Experience with Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes.
• Experience with Docker and containerized application development.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps workflows.
• Exposure to Linux, scripting, or infrastructure automation.
• Understanding of databases, operating systems, and networking concepts.
• Experience with distributed systems or cloud-native application development.
• Exposure to platform engineering, infrastructure services, or operational engineering.
• Experience working in agile/Scrum development teams.

WHERE YOU BELONG

You will work with your team on SAP HANA & Persistency / Big Data Fabric Services — Object Store.

The Big Data Fabric Services team is responsible for:

• Extending and completing the SAP Data Platform with big data and cloud platform technologies to support different SAP Lines of Business.
• Leveraging Apache Spark and Object Store technology to provide scalable and cost-effective compute and storage services for data ingestion, processing, and sharing.
• Integrating into SAP BTP to offer a unified development and deployment experience for different SAP Lines of Business.
• Assuring multi-tenancy and secure data processing.
• Building and operating reliable platform services in an agile and collaborative culture where knowledge sharing is fostered.

 

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Requisition ID: 454115  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid

Experience Level

Mid Level