SAP iXp Intern Cloud Database Engine Developer

Description

We help the world run better

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.

About The SAP Internship Experience Program

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.

Three reasons to intern at SAP
 

• Culture of collaboration: meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe and create a thriving personal network.
• Project-driven experience: gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables.
• Gain visibility: with SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you’ll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs and career development opportunities at your fingertips.
   

What You’ll Do

Position Title: SAP iXp Intern - Cloud Database Engine Developer

Location: Waterloo, ON

Expected start date to end date: September 02, 2025 - December 19, 2025

Work hours: 40 hours per week desired
 

• contribute to the design of new database/query processing features
• implement prototypes using a variety of languages and tools
• write automated tests for your features
• learn about cutting edge data structures and algorithms
• build strong skills in database and cloud technologies
• be mentored by skilled researchers and developers who want to help you succeed
   

What You Bring

We're looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

Successful applicants will have an exceptional ability to learn and the motivation to excel in software design, implementation, and testing.

The Following Qualifications Are Required
 

• Strong programming skills in Python
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Overall average of at least 85%
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
   

The Following Are Not Required But Would Be Valuable
 

• Programming skills in C++, Go, or Scala
• Experience with Apache Parquet or Apache Spark
• Knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts
• Work experience at a software development company
• Software design experience
• Significant hobby programming
• Strong results in math or programming contests
   

Meet your team

Look under the hood of almost any software project and you’ll find a database. Come join our HANA Cloud Data Landscape team and learn about databases from the inside out. We are responsible for developing cloud focused database and data analytics functionality that underlies many SAP products. Our team consists primarily of masters or PhD level database researchers and software developers, and we are focused on pushing the boundaries of technology to deliver innovative solutions to our customers. We have a special passion for mentoring students, sharing our knowledge with them and helping them develop new skills.

We are looking for enthusiastic students to implement several prototypes designed to improve cloud performance in SAP HANA. You will learn about high performance data structures and algorithms, implement them, and evaluate their performance. Possible work areas include optimal use of (cloud-based) object storage, investigating approaches to querying flat file storage, and enhancing the Spark engine with new features to improve query performance. If you’re excited about writing lots of code and love the challenge of achieving the best possible performance in your software, then this could be the job for you.

Depending on your project you may use a variety of languages and tools. We expect Python to be a key development language, but you may also use Scala, Go or other languages. Knowledge of SQL, relational database concepts, Apache Spark, or Apache Parquet would be an asset but is not required.

Join us. We can’t wait to see what you’ll achieve.

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