Senior Developer - Knowledge Graph

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.
- About the team
The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) enables customers to build a future-proof business data fabric that unifies and governs SAP and third-party data as the foundation for agentic AI and enterprise systems. The BDC Knowledge Graph (KG) team is responsible for all KG topics for SAP BDC, from data transformation and integration as part of the SAP Knowledge Graph, to tooling that enables customers to build their own ontologies and graphs. We work with modern software stacks and infrastructure, including agentic AI development and grounding. The team works very closely with global AI and KG teams to drive SAP’s vision of the autonomous enterprise, enabled by AI agents and grounded by the SAP Knowledge Graph.
As part of this team, you’ll be able to make a significant impact on a key strategic area for one of the world’s leading enterprise software providers with the opportunity to design and shape how challenges are tackled with the latest tech in a globally distributed and collaborative environment, with a strong team in Brazil.
- What you’ll build
- Develop evaluation and benchmarking frameworks to measure system quality, reliability, and performance.
- Drive optimization of latency, throughput, and cost efficiency across systems.
- Implement and enhance observability and SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis to ensure high system reliability.
- Collaborate with platform, data, and AI teams to design robust, production-ready solutions and improve system integration.
- Continuously improve system scalability, resilience, and maintainability through thoughtful design and engineering best practices.
- What you bring
- Robust programming and cloud-native software engineering expertise.
- Proficiency in system design, including designing for scale, resiliency, and fault tolerance. Expertise in microservices and distributed systems preferred.
- Experience in performance optimization and troubleshooting in complex system environments
- Solid understanding of SRE principles, observability (logs, metrics, tracing), and incident management.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring ability, and strong problem-solving skills.
- Hands-on experience with:
- Cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or SAP BTP
- AI-assisted coding tools use and best practices
- LLM integration and consumption, advanced RAG patterns, and agentic workflows is preferred.
- Experience with ETL pipelines and/or Data Engineering is highly valued.
- Experience with Knowledge Graphs, especially RDF and SPARQL is highly valued
- Where you belong
Take end-to-end technical ownership of critical systems and drive engineering excellence across the team. Mentor junior engineers, guide design and code quality, and contribute to building strong technical capabilities within the team. Collaborate across global, cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions. Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing while influencing best practices and technical direction.
- 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 world.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.
- AI Usage in the Recruitment Process
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Requisition ID: | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional L