Cloud Platform - Senior Engineer Software Management

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.

We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and 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 the 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.

The Wind River Cloud team is building a private cloud platform purpose‑built for mission‑critical enterprise, telecom and 5G applications, and we are leading contributors to the Open Source Starling

X cloud native project.

The Software Management team delivers robust frameworks that orchestrate the software update lifecycle across geographically distributed Linux environments, including major release upgrades and rollbacks, and patch updates. The frameworks include applications, state management, REST APIs and command line interfaces that span the software lifecycle.

Designed for distributed systems supporting critical workloads, the applications support a smooth software update experience, with resilience and fault tolerance to ensure that updates are recoverable and the system remains highly available.

As the cloud architecture evolves, the team continues to adopt modern Kubernetes operators and cloud‑native best practices to manage update configuration at scale.

The right candidate will have proven software engineering skills to build resilient distributed systems for critical workloads. They bring a solid understanding of Linux processes and lifecycle, high availability, and recovery. Experience with Kubernetes operators is a huge plus! We're looking for someone who thrives on teamwork, and provides thought leadership to solve complex problems.

We offer a strong team engineering culture, and excellent tools for analysis, testing and automation, including AI.

• Work with technology such as Kubernetes, operators, Helm, Openstack and other projects.
• Deliver upgrades to Linux based operating systems.
• Design and deliver resilient and production quality multi‑node systems, using Python primarily and GoLang.
• Prioritize high performance and availability in software solutions.
• Actively contribute to Starling
  
  X, an exciting and growing open‑source project.
• Diagnose issues related to the Unified Software Management (USM) and patch frameworks and configuration management.
• Drive technical improvements and quality in maintenance updates to active code streams.
• Manage reliable host and service configuration using Linux best practices.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, analysis, and debugging assistants) to improve code quality and development velocity.

• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Programming experience with Python.
• Experience with Linux software development.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Exceptional team player who works well in collaborative environments.
• Exposure to Go, C/C++, Kubernetes operators would be an asset.
• Experience with ostree would be an asset.

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