9691 - Linux Platform Software Developer – Member Technical Staff

Wind River Systems; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in software for mission-critical systems seeks a Linux Platform Software Developer. The ideal candidate will contribute to large-scale projects, focusing on high availability, configuration management, and Linux-based platform services. Join a dynamic team that encourages innovation and provides opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance

Income protection through disability coverage

Matching RRSP

Vacation and time off policies

Well-being programs

Learning benefits

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming experience with Python.
• 2+ years of experience in architecture and design.

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality, testable code for processes running on Linux.
• Diagnose issues related to high availability and configuration management.
• Contribute actively to the open-source project StarlingX.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Configuration Management

Debugging

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science

Tools

OSTree

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Linux Platform Software Developer – Member Technical Staff

Linux Platform Software Developer – Member Technical Staff

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 customersacross automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industriessolve 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 andbuilding 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 Team

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects like Kubernetes, Docker,OpenStackand 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 full software stack solutions to fulfill the strict requirements of edge computing use cases from security to high availability. The team delivers in the areas of configuration management, fault management and host management. 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, primarily 5G.

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills.You are expected to be versatileandable to thrive in a dynamicenvironment. You are comfortable managing competing priorities andcanbring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high quality, testable code for processes that run natively on Linux
• Develop solutions that are highly available across multiple linux hosts
• Develop solutions for process monitoring and recovery of services running in linux
• Develop solutions for configuration and state information backup and retrieval to restore systems to a previous point in time
• Diagnose issues related to linux processes in high availability, process monitoring, system active / standby failover and configuration management
• Contribute actively to StarlingX , anopen-sourceproject under the OpenStack Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge ( https://www.starlingx.io/ )
• Work as part of a team focused on building and maintaining Linux-based platform services that ensure high availability for Kubernetes based applications
• Investigate and resolve issues reported during product verification and customer integration.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.

BasicQualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science orrelated field
• 7+years ofprofessionalsoftware developmentexperience
• 5+ years ofprogramming experience with Python
• 2+ years ofexperience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+yearsof professionalexperience buildinginfrastructure softwarefor distributed systems
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems
• Experience in OSTree , Ansible, Puppet
• Proficientin C/C++
• Contribution to theopen-sourcecommunity
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• 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.

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here .

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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.