Senior Developer - HANA Performance Engineer, Performance Engineering Team

We help the world run better

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What you will do

We are seeking a talented and experienced HANA Performance Engineer to join our growing team and play a crucial role in ensuring the optimal performance and scalability of our cloud-based applications.

As a HANA Performance Engineer you will be focussing on aspects of HANA Performance including Query Analysis, Query Optimization, Index Analysis, perform detailed analysis of how our Products utilize HANA features such as Workload Management so that we can get the best performance out of HANA. Additionally you will help build Next Generation, state of art, AI/ML based solution for automated detection and analysis of HANA Performance Issues. You will also be a key part of migration from HANA on VM to HANA Cloud.

As a HANA Performance Engineer your job duties will include:

• Being a part of the Performance Engineering Team, you will be working on SAP SuccessFactors top technical enterprise-wide priorities including Building of an Intelligent Cloud First Next Generation Performance Engineering Solutions using latest and greatest technologies including Containers/Kubernetes, Security, AI/ML, Microservices, Software Design Patterns.
• Write JMeter, Gatling scripts as well as Build solutions that will ideally auto-generate such Multiuser Performance Test scripts
• Perform in depth analysis of HANA related Performance Issues including Explain Plan Analysis, Query Introspection, analysis of Joins and provide guidance to Application Engineering to improve performance.

What you bring

• Great communication skills & Ability to Enhance Performance Coverage of SAP SuccessFactors Products.
• Strong Computer Science Fundamentals, Proven experience as a Performance Engineer, BS/MS in CS.
• Ability to Dig into the analysis of various Product workflows and features to find Performance issues and Anti-patterns in an automated manner.
• Ability to Learn quickly, Ability to Use latest and greatest technologies in Performance domain to create highly innovative solutions that can detect and report Performance issues with great efficiency.
• Ability to Apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems.
• Be passionate about keeping up to date with latest technology and the technology for our products.
• Ability to Perform debugging, problem solving and resolve defects / bugs as required.
• Demonstratable passion for developing well architected, elegant software tools and services.
• Deep understanding of traditional and in-memory databases.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the database structured query language (SQL).
• Deal with complex SQL queries, running into hundreds of lines.
• Knowledge of SAP Analytics cloud.
• Interaction of select/update/delete/insert SQL statements.
• Performance analysis of SQL statements.
• Performance analysis of the database, SAP HANA studio, Creation of schemas, Schema export/import.
• Deadlock analysis, Expensive statements analysis / execution plans.
• HANA execution engines, Indexing strategies, SQL plan cache internals, HANA configuration parameters.

Meet your team

We are SAP SuccessFactors Performance Engineering team and we work on some of the most exciting, challenging, and innovative technologies (AI/ML, Cloud computing (GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, Containers, Python, REACT, Security, SAP HANA, Mobile Computing etc.) to help effect changes across the technology spectrum to solve the most important business problems at SAP SuccessFactors while ensuring our products deliver high performance. We provide thought leadership on some of the most challenging and important problems and are currently focused on Cloud Native Transformation of SAP SuccessFactors.

Performance engineering at SAP SuccessFactors is a discipline that focuses on optimizing the performance characteristics of our software products. The goal of performance engineering is to ensure that software applications meet or exceed the required performance criteria.

​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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Requisition ID: 402980  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.