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Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Performance Engineer to join our SAP Green Token team and take ownership of the stability, resilience, and performance of our cloud-native sustainability platform. You will work across a full-stack environment — Java/Spring Boot microservices, and SAP BTP cloud infrastructure — to ensure our product delivers a fast, reliable experience at scale.

The Role:

Performance Analysis & Optimization: Profile and tune Java 25 / Spring Boot microservices, database queries (SAP HANA), throughput, and resource-efficiency targets.

Load & Stress Testing: Design, implement, and maintain automated load/stress/soak test suites; define and enforce performance budgets for critical user journeys.

Reliability Engineering: Identify single points of failure, improve error handling and retry/fallback strategies, and drive adoption of circuit-breaker and bulkhead patterns across services.

Incident Prevention & Response: Conduct root-cause analyses of production incidents, define remediation plans, and implement systemic fixes to prevent recurrence.

CI/CD Quality Gates: Integrate performance regression checks into Jenkins pipelines and Gradle build processes so degradations are caught before deployment.

Knowledge Sharing: Champion a performance-aware culture through documentation, code reviews, and pairing sessions with feature teams.

What you bring:

· 6+ years in engineering

· Strong proficiency in Java (modern versions) and the Spring Boot ecosystem, including concurrency, memory management, and GC tuning.

· Hands-on experience with load testing tools (Gatling, JMeter, k6, or similar).

· Deep understanding of relational database performance — query optimization, indexing strategies, connection pool tuning (experience with SAP HANA is a plus).

· Solid knowledge of HTTP, REST API performance, caching strategies, and CDN behavior.

· Experience building and interpreting observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or similar.

· Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Gradle) and integrating automated performance gates.

· Strong analytical and troubleshooting mindset — comfortable reading flame graphs, heap dumps, thread dumps, and GC logs.

· Excellent communication skills — ability to translate technical findings into actionable recommendations for engineering and product stakeholders.

What we consider beneficial:

· Experience with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Cloud Foundry, or similar PaaS environments.

· Knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS architectures and the reliability challenges they introduce.

· Deployments managed by Kubernetes (HELM, Docker)

· Familiarity with Gradle multi-module monorepo build systems.

Meet your team:

Our mission is to make the world a better place with software which brings more sustainability into all industries.

SAP Green Token is an accounting and traceability platform for certified commodities, giving full provenance about complete supply chain for all ingredients for a (finished) product. It helps businesses adhere to various sustainability standards and regulations, such as ISCC+ or EUDR.

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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Requisition ID: 450507 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: