8834 - Senior Engineer - Cloud

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. 

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions — such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers — and in recent 5G milestones — including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and in building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where they lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Wind River Systems is building Wind River Studio for Operators, delivering an integrated cloud platform, unifying infrastructure, orchestration, and analytics capabilities so operators can deploy and manage their intelligent 5G edge networks globally. Wind River Systems is seeking an experienced, high-performing Senior Software Engineer, developing distributed cloud-based orchestration and automation platform solution for the intelligent edge.

The orchestration capabilities in Wind River Studio give you a single pane of glass to manage and automate application deployment in a large-scale distributed environment. Pick the applications you need from an app catalog, deploy them to a carrier-grade cloud platform, and orchestrate the resources needed for the applications — simply, intuitively, and logically. Scale from a handful of nodes to thousands of nodes in a geographically dispersed distributed environment.

What you’ll do:

Utilizing your extensive experience as a Software Engineer to develop and maintain Wind River Studio Conductor, for multi-cloud automation.

Who You Will Work With:

You will be working with multiple teams across the Wind River ecosystem to enhance automation and orchestration with our products in Wind River Cloud Platform, Wind River Analytics and other products. Your role will work with other Members of Technical Staff and contractors in multiple countries.  You will be contributing to making an entire system work of Wind River products to work together seamlessly.

Your Responsibilities:

• Wind River Conductor product, which is part of Wind River Studio and Wind River Cloud Platform products.
• Develop and Enhance features in the Conductor Product.
• Use Open Source, and proprietary code to contribute to the features of the product
• Utilize Agile Process to complete your work.
• Work with the most dynamic and exciting open-source software projects today – Kubernetes (K8S), Helm, Docker, etc.
• Work as part of a team focused on containerization and fault tolerant/carrier grade deployment.
• Work with and utilize StarlingX (https://www.starlingx.io/).
• Develop and deliver platform features with high quality design and code.
• Investigate and resolve issues reported during product verification and customer integration.
• Implement, debug and contribute to automation and features for Wind River Conductor product.
• Work with other Members of Technical Staff on various solutions.

Core Competencies:

• Engineering degree (Computer Science or equivalent technical degree).
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of programming experience with Python.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in building infrastructure software for highly scalable and distributed systems.  
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems. 
• Exposure to gerrit, zuul. 
• Experience with modifying and enhancing linux build systems.
• Contribution to the open-source community. 
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. 
• Experience in Kubernetes and one of the following:
  • RabbitMQ
  • PostgreSQL
  • YAML
  • TOSCOA
  • UI/NodeJs/ReactJS
  • Typescript
  • Sematntic
• Familiarity with Agile development and Dev Ops a significant asset.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, teamwork, and leadership skills.
• Comfortable working in a distributed development environment
• Proven ability to work across many technology areas, act proactively.
• Able to enthusiastically work, interact with diverse groups such as sales, marketing, business development, partners, support, etc.