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Cloud Platform Software Developer – Member of Technical Staff

Location: Ottawa, Canada
 

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: 

• Work with the most dynamic and exciting open-source software projects today – Kubernetes (K8S), Helm, Openstack, Ansible, etc.
• Work as part of a team focused on containerization and fault  tolerant/carrier grade development. 
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the OpenStack Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge ( https://www.starlingx.io/).

• Develop and deliver platform upgrade features with high quality design and code. 
• Investigate and resolve issues reported during product verification and customer integration. 
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development. 

 
Basic Qualifications: 

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

 
Preferred Qualifications: 

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

BENEFITS 

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

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

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