Software Architect – Wind River Orchestration and Automation Platform

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. 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.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Wind River is at the forefront of enabling mission-critical, distributed cloud infrastructure for 5G and intelligent edge applications. The Wind River Conductor product serves as the orchestration and automation backbone—providing a centralized, policy-driven platform to deploy, manage, and optimize applications and infrastructure across thousands of geographically dispersed sites. Purpose-built for carrier-grade and edge-aware environments, Conductor delivers zero-touch operations and blueprint-based automation, ensuring consistent, efficient, and resilient operations from the network core to the far edge. This is a unique opportunity to shape the architecture of a platform that is redefining how the industry builds and operates large-scale, distributed cloud systems.

YOUR ROLE

As a Software Architect, you will lead the architecture for Wind River Conductor, the orchestration and automation backbone for mission-critical, distributed cloud infrastructure. Define the vision, set the roadmap, and architect solutions for operations at scale and zero-touch provisioning across thousands of sites worldwide. Balance strategic decision-making with targeted hands-on prototyping to validate designs. Collaborate with global engineering teams, customers, and open-source communities to shape the future of telecom and intelligent edge automation.

While this is a software architecture role, you will also engage in targeted hands-on development and prototyping to validate architectural approaches, assess new technologies, and maintain a deep understanding of the product.

If you are a strategic thinker who thrives on designing complex systems, but you also enjoy rolling up your sleeves when needed — building prototypes, reviewing code, or troubleshooting architectural issues — to maintain a deep understanding of the platform and its evolution, this is your stage.

You will collaborate with Cloud team engineers and managers, other architects, product lines, groups, and teams across the company and in other locations and support internal and external customers. You will also have opportunities to engage with and contribute to various internal and external open-source communities. You will report to the Senior Director of Cloud Architecture within the CTO organization of Wind River.

In your daily job you will:

• Define and maintain the architectural vision for Wind River Conductor, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security across thousands of distributed sites.
• Lead architectural decision-making for core automation and orchestration capabilities, balancing technical innovation with product delivery priorities.
• Design architectures for operations at scale, enabling consistent, reliable, and repeatable management of thousands of geographically distributed sites.
• Architect zero-touch provisioning frameworks that securely onboard new sites and systems without manual intervention, using policy-driven automation and declarative service definitions.
• Prototype and validate key product changes, emerging technologies, and architectural patterns to guide implementation teams.
• Partner with engineering managers to align design decisions with long-term platform strategy.
• Collaborate with customers, product management, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable architecture solutions.
• Represent Wind River in industry forums and open-source communities, influencing standards and best practices.
• Mentor engineers on architectural principles and design trade-offs.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

• Core Technical Expertise (must have):
• Cloud-native architecture: Kubernetes, container orchestration, multi-cloud environments (Private Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Automation & orchestration frameworks: Cloudify, ArgoCD, Terraform, TOSCA models, ONAP.
• Scalable distributed systems: Designing for high availability, security, and operational automation at global scale.
• Expertise in large-scale distributed system design, including federation, fault isolation, and asynchronous orchestration.
• Understanding of zero-touch provisioning architectures, including secure bootstrap mechanisms, device attestation, and policy-driven deployment pipelines.
• Proven track record in designing for immutable infrastructure, declarative configuration management, and event-driven automation to achieve predictable and repeatable outcomes at scale.
• Service modeling & APIs: REST API design, data modeling, and integration strategies.

Technical Proficiency for Prototyping & Deep Product Understanding (strongly preferred):

• Backend: Python, relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• Frontend: TypeScript, modern JS frameworks, state management (Redux or equivalent).
• Security: Secure coding practices, authentication/authorization models.

Desirable Experience:

• ETSI and O-RAN standards.
• Open-source contribution and governance experience.

BENEFITS

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind

COMPENSATION

The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is $150,000 to $210,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $170,000 to $230,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:

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Diversity is foundational for Wind River’s business success. We want to be a workplace of choice for all people and we value the unique perspectives offered by a diverse workforce. Wind River does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, age, ancestry, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status. This principle applies to all areas of employment: recruitment and hiring, training, performance evaluations, promotions and transfers, compensation and benefits, and social and recreational programs.

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