Cloud Platform Senior Manager

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 such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent including with Verizon and building in the world with Vodafone. 

 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. 

About the Team

The Wind River Cloud team builds a distributed edge platform using Kubernetes, Open Stack, and Starling

X. We deliverhighly available, fault-tolerant infrastructuredesigned to operate at scale in demanding environments such as 5G and industrial edge deployments.

Our scope spans the full platform, includingstorage, networking, platform services, configuration, and lifecycle management. As a key contributor to the StarlingX open-source project, we help shape cloud-native infrastructure for the edge.

We are looking for strong engineers and systems thinkers who can work across domains, adapt to changing priorities, anddelivercomplex distributed systems. Success requires the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance priorities, and collaborate effectively across teams and in the open-source community.

We value ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement,leveragingmodern engineering practices—including automation, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling—to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Engineering Manager within the StarlingX organization, you will lead a team of engineers developing and delivering cloud infrastructure solutions for the distributed edge. StarlingX integrates Kubernetes, Open Stack, and distributed systems technologies into a highly available platform optimized for edge environments.

You will be responsible for driving execution, developing people, and shaping technical direction in close partnership with your team and peer leaders. This role requires balancing delivery, architectural alignment, and open-source engagement.

A key expectation of this roleisorganizational flexibility—managers operate at the platform level and are expected over time tolead different functional areas (e.g., storage, networking, platform services, CI/CD) based on business priorities. As such, success requires broad systems thinking rather than deep specialization in a single domain.

You will work in a highly collaborative, open-source-oriented environment with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities