Senior Cloud Engineer- Dev

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Wind River Systems is building Wind River Studio for Operators, delivering an integrated cloud platform, unifying infrastructure, orchestration, and analytics capabilities so operators can deploy and manage their intelligent 5G edge networks globally. Wind River Systems is seeking an experienced, high-performing Senior Engineer Software Engineer developing distributed cloud-based orchestration and automation platform solution for the intelligent edge.

The orchestration capabilities in Wind River Studio give you a single pane of glass to manage and automate application deployment in a large-scale distributed environment. Pick the applications you need from an app catalog, deploy them to a carrier-grade cloud platform, and orchestrate the resources needed for the applications — simply, intuitively, and logically. Scale from a handful of nodes to thousands of nodes in a geographically dispersed distributed environment.

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ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects like Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, and fast-paced open-source technologies that are central to our products. We are seeking a versatile and high-performing Cloud Developer who thrives in agile environments and brings deep expertise in software engineering, Linux systems, and cloud-native development.

You will contribute to Wind River’s leadership in the StarlingX open-source project, helping build and maintain infrastructure for highly distributed edge solutions—including 5G, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation.

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PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop software for a complete cloud infrastructure software stack
• Design and implement high-quality code based on Kubernetes, containerized applications, and distributed cloud systems
• Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices to ensure robust and maintainable code
• Work with open-source technologies including Kubernetes, OpenStack, KubeVirt, Helm, Ansible, Puppet, and OSTree
• Contribute to platform upgrade features and CI/CD pipelines
• Stay current with OpenStack advancements and integrate them into the platform
• Participate in agile development processes, with the ability to shift between development, testing, and automation roles as needed
• Investigate and resolve issues during product verification and customer integration
• Use Linux and shell scripting for day-to-day development and operations
• Work with open-source software responsibly, including understanding licensing models and managing CVEs

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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field
• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of programming experience with Python
• Experience with Linux systems and shell scripting
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker

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DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building infrastructure software for scalable, distributed systems
• Deep understanding of OpenStack architecture (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone)
• Track record of delivering mission-critical, 24x7 production systems
• Contributions to OpenStack or other open-source communities
• Familiarity with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, YAML, and TOSCA
• Experience managing open-source licensing and CVE remediation
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Excellent analytical, debugging, and communication skills

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.

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Wind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

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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