Developer Rust / C

What you`ll do

SAP aims to develop an Open Reference Architecture (ORA) for a secure and sustainable cloud edge infrastructure that includes intelligent optimization methods for data transparency and security. This reference infrastructure, aspired by the EU IPCEI-CIS (Important Project of Common European Interest – Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services) program, shall be the basis for future software development and a prerequisite for a pan-European cloud edge infrastructure.

SAP will be working on the publicly funded project with both experienced employees from its existing workforce but also new hires. Therefore, we are looking for suitable candidates. If you are interested in Cloud Operating System development and operation, the usage and further development of Open-Source solutions and standards, interoperability, efficiency, and sustainability you should consider applying.

IronCore is SAP’s next generation Open Source Cloud Infrastructure based on Kubernetes. We manage physical servers, storage and network infrastructure with Kubernetes controllers – providing a modern Cloud infrastructure to SAP developers and customers. IronCore uses a modern Software Defined Everything approach as well as hardware offloading capabilities to provide a flexible, yet performant base layer for application deployments.

The Role

As an Associate Architect (f/m/d) you will be a crucial part the IronCore development team. Working from Munich, you will be focused on the lower layers of our stack: Networking, Virtualization and Storage. Following a hands-on approach, you will define and realize implementations using state of the art technology in the IronCore infrastructure stack. You participate in development and bring various parts of our development teams together to build a homogenous cloud infrastructure.

IronCore is SAP’s next generation Open Source Cloud Infrastructure based on Kubernetes. We manage physical servers, storage and network infrastructure with Kubernetes controllers – providing a modern Cloud infrastructure to SAP developers and customers. IronCore uses a modern Software Defined Everything approach as well as hardware offloading capabilities to provide a flexible, yet performant base layer for application deployments.

As a (Senior) Developer (f/m/d) will contribute to our network, storage and virtualiziation solutions by writing code in C and Rust. A custom network packet processor, implemented in C with the DPDK/rte_flow framework, speeds up our customer networks. Rust implementations increase the memory safety of our applications: We move towards rust-vmm based virtualization technology and build our own Rust-based Linux init system. You will participate in various sub-projects of our infrastructure stack. Most of your code will be open source.

What You Bring

A minimum of 5 years of professional coding experience in C or Rust
In depth knowledge about and experience working with the Linux Kernel, Linux containers and virtualization
Good understanding of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, TLS)
Willingness to learn about Kubernetes based lifecycle management
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Ideally you have already contributed to open source projects and provide your GitHub account name with your application