Cloud Platform Software Developer

Description
Position at Wind River
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.
Why Choose Wind River?
Wind River’s impact spans critical infrastructure domains such as telecommunications, including 5G. industrial (automation, sustainable energy, robotics, mining), connected healthcare and medical devices, automotive (connected and self-driving vehicles), and aerospace & defense. We were recognized by VDC Research as #1 in Edge Compute OS Platforms, overtaking Microsoft as the overall commercial leader. Wind River regularly wins industry recognitions for excellence in IoT security, cloud and edge computing, as well as 8 consecutive years as a “Top Work Place”. If you’re passionate about amplifying your impact on the world, in a caring, respectful culture with a growth mindset, come join us and help lead the way into the future of the intelligent edge!
Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects like Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack and fast-paced Open-Source technologies that are in high demand from our customers. Wind River Cloud has adopted these technologies into the core of our product, which is driving us to find experienced and high-performing individuals that can learn and contribute to these container and virtualization solutions. In addition, Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open Source StarlingX cloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed Edge solutions, including 5G, Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial Automation and Augmented Reality. Wind River contributes and builds upon the work within StarlingX to ensure it meets the demands of these critical applications.
The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills. You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.
Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve issues reported during product verification and customer integration.
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the Open Infrastructure Foundation - a fully featured cloud infrastructure software stack for the edge (https://www.starlingx.io/).
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.
• Work as part of a team focused on containerization and fault tolerant/carrier grade development.
• Work with the most dynamic and exciting open-source software projects today – Kubernetes (K8S), Helm, Openstack, Ansible, etc.
• Develop platform features with high quality design and code.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of programming experience with Python.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with low level software development.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Exposure to C/C++, Ansible, Puppet, SQL and Go.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Contribution to the open-source community.
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems.
• 5+ years of professional experience in building infrastructure software for highly scalable and distributed systems.

Benefits

• Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.
• Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.
• Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.
• Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
• Matching RRSP.
• Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.
• Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.