Senior Go Developer for Unified Metadata Service

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

The development center of SAP in Bulgaria is technology-focused and plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 2000 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions towards life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products. For its 24-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

What you’ll do:

Our team delivers the Business Technology Platform Unified Metadata Service – an innovative solution at the core of SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise. The Unified Metadata Service (UMS) allows discovery and management of Metadata Graphs at scale based on an open collaboration model between Metadata Providers and Metadata Consumers. Metadata Providers can onboard new Metadata Types via desired-state-based resource definitions which will automatically result in auto-generation of the respective management and discovery interfaces in UMS. Metadata Providers can then build plug-ins that can write instances of the respective Metadata Types into UMS. The Metadata Instances of these Metadata Types form an inter-connected graph of data. This allows Metadata Consumers to discover the Metadata instance graphs via the rich search capabilities of the service. The concept of Metadata Visibilities allows for defining flexible access policies as to which consumers can access what information.

The Unified Metadata Service is also becoming a key building block for the Apeiro Reference Architecture (https://apeirora.eu/) for Unified Data and Metadata Management and will be open-sourced in 2025 so that other EU companies, participating in Apeiro, can also contribute.

Our team also builds API first backbone aggregation services that collect metadata about the customer landscape systems and application integrations from various providers, exposes this metadata via APIs and UIs for landscape discovery and a smart framework for applications to exchange security configurations automatically.

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Developer to join us and help building full-stack services for the Cloud.

Responsibilities:

Build full-stack services architected for speed, security, resilience, and reliability in distributed environment, Design and implement cloud-native backend APIs running in Kubernetes
Work with cutting-edge tech stack to develop state-of-the-art solutions, embracing technologies provided by cloud hyperscalers, open-source community, and SAP
Participate in all phases of the software services development, from design discussions, implementation, testing, to deployment and operations
Embrace the exciting opportunity to join a high-profile strategic and transformational project to orchestrate the SAP Intelligent Enterprise
Adhere to the industry best practices and the team’s high standards for code quality
For those parts of the project, which are developed as open source, demonstrate thought leadership and be inclusive and supportive of the external community
Actively contribute to the process of continuous improvement: personal, team and service

What you bring:

University education in computer science, software engineering or similar
3+ years of professional experience
Strong knowledge in at least one of: Go, Java, C/C++, C# or Node.js. Go experience is a definite advantage
Experience in web app development, cloud service development
Experience with SQL and relational databases
Bash scripting knowledge is an advantage
Experience with computer networks (HTTP, TCP and other protocols)
Curiosity and willingness to quickly learn new technologies, concepts and tools
Good interpersonal skills and fluency in English: collaboration in an international environment will be a regular part of your job.

You are either familiar with or at least curious about:

Cloud computing, distributed systems, container technology e.g. Docker
GraphQL and gRPC APIs
Kubernetes, Kubernetes operators, Istio
Object storage and caching solutions (e.g. Redis)
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud
Open Source software, projects and communities

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.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
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