Senior Cloud Tester - Distributed Cloud

Aptiv; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wind River is seeking a software engineer to help build Linux-based platform services for edge deployments and Kubernetes-backed applications. You will contribute to high availability, configuration management, and system monitoring across multiple Linux hosts.

The role requires strong Python and C/C++, distributed systems experience, and active participation in open-source projects. You will work within a fast-paced team focused on reliable, secure edge computing solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or masters in computer science or related field.
• Professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with Python.
• Experience contributing to architecture/ design of distributed systems.
• Experience building infrastructure software for distributed systems.
• Experience in OSTree, Ansible, Puppet.
• Proficient in C/C++.
• Open-source contributions are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality, testable code for processes that run on Linux.
• Develop solutions highly available across multiple Linux hosts.
• Develop configuration management solutions across multiple Linux hosts.
• Develop process monitoring and recovery for services on Linux.
• Develop backup/restore for system state information.
• Diagnose issues related to Linux processes in high availability, monitoring and failover.
• Contribute to StarlingX and open-source projects managing edge-cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate on building Linux-based platform services for Kubernetes apps.
• Participate in agile development processes.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Linux

Open-source contribution

Distributed systems

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OSTree

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

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 Team

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 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.

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 configuration management 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, an open-source project 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.

Qualifications/Skills

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field
• Years of professional software development experience
• Years of programming experience with Python
• Years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Years of professional experience building infrastructure software for distributed systems
• Experience in OSTree, Ansible, Puppet
• Proficient in C/C++
• Contribution to the open-source community is an asset
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Strong analytical and debugging 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.

Aptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.