Senior Engineer - Linux Application Developer

Aptiv; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work

Health, dental, and life insurance

RRSP matching

Job summary

Wind River in Ottawa, Canada is seeking a Senior Engineer to design and build Linux applications that integrate with Kubernetes operators. You will contribute to a cloud-native configuration management platform and work on open-source projects like StarlingX.

The role requires mature Kubernetes experience, strong software development skills in C/C++/Python, and a proven ability to deliver robust, scalable systems in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development for distributed systems.
• Exposure to Go, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes operators strongly preferred.
• Exposure to Helm, Ansible and Puppet strongly preferred.
• Programming in C, C++, Python is a great asset.
• Experience with Linux software development and debugging.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop leading-edge, high-performance cloud and container technologies for the Edge.
• Develop Kubernetes operators and supporting automation, observability, security, resilience and scale.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

C

C++

Python

Linux

Education

Bachelor’s / Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Helm

Ansible

Puppet

OpenStack

Job description

Senior Engineer -** Linux Application Developer**

Location: Ottawa, Canada

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 milestonesincluding the world’s first successful 5G data sessionwith Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networksin 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 wherethelived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset,customer-focus, anddiversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

ABOUT THE TEAM

This is a critical role that will evolve configuration management into a cloud-native operator model on Kubernetes. This role will lay important foundations as Wind River Cloud Platform replaces legacy configuration (e.g. Puppet) with a declarative configuration model based on Kubernetes operators. Designed for production grade support, these operators encapsulate existing business logic, upgrade support, security, observability, performance and scaling, and lifecycle management.

Theright candidate will possess maturity in Kubernetes, ideally building operators, with proven software engineering skills to deliver robust applications that scale, and a quality automation mindset. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.

The candidate will have also contribute to the linux applications that integrate with the Kubernetes operators, in domains such as host management, service management, and fault management.

This is an exciting opportunity to have a big impact on cloud-native configuration management and contribute to open-source software that is heavily used at scale in critical 5G Edge solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop leading edge,high-performancecloud and container technologies for the Edge.
• Develop Kubernetes operators and supporting automation, observability, security, resilience and scale concerns
• Work with the most dynamic and excitingopen sourcesoftware projects today – Kubernetes (K8S), Helm,OpenStack,and related projects
• Work as part of a team focused on containerization, virtualization and fault tolerance/carrier-gradedevelopment.
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, anopen sourceproject under the OpenInfra Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge (https://www.starlingx.io/).
• Develop and deliverhigh-qualitydesign and code.
• Develop automated tests, enabling faster design and test cycles.
• Investigate and resolve issues reported during product verification and customer integration.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.
• Develop solutions for configuration management across multiplelinuxhosts
• Develop solutions for process monitoring and recovery of services running inlinux
• Develop solutions for configuration and state information backup and retrieval to restore systems to a previous point in time.
• Diagnoseissues related tolinuxprocesses in high availability, process monitoring, system active standby failover and configuration management

Qualifications/Skills:

• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science orrelated field
• 5+ years of professional software development experience includingbuilding infrastructure software for distributed systems
• Exposure to Go, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes operators is strongly preferred
• Exposure to Helm,Ansible and Puppet is strongly preferred
• Programming experience with C, C++, Python is a great asset
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability,and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience with Linux software development
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Exceptionalteam player who works well in collaborative environments
• Self-managed, fast learner with the desire and ability to master new technologies
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Familiarity with iterative and agile/scrum software development processes
• Contribution to the open-source community would be an asset

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.

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