Senior Engineer - linux application developer

Wind River; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Ottawa is seeking a Senior Engineer - Linux Application Developer to work on cutting-edge cloud and container technologies. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in software development, specifically in Linux environments, and proficient in Python and Kubernetes. This role offers a hybrid work model and competitive benefits including health insurance and a RRSP matching program.

Benefits

Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance

Matching RRSP

Vacation and various time off policies

Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning

Well-being programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in distributed systems.
• Experience contributing to system architecture and design.
• Exposure to Go and Kubernetes operators is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance edge and container technologies.
• Contribute to the StarlingX open source project.
• Develop solutions for process monitoring on Linux.

Skills

Python

Strong analytical and debugging skills

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Collaborative teamwork

Linux software development

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

Helm

Puppet

C/C++

Job description

Overview

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 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.

Team

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects including 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. The team delivers in the areas of configuration management, fault management and host management. It 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 and be versatile to thrive in a dynamic environment developing applications and tooling to be fault tolerant, available and scalable for real time Kubernetes applications. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Develop leading edge, high-performance cloud and container technologies for the Edge.
• Work with Kubernetes (K8S), Helm, OpenStack, and related projects.
• Work as part of a team focused on containerization, virtualization, VM management and fault tolerance / carrier-grade development.
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open source project under the OpenStack Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge (https://www.starlingx.io/).
• Develop and deliver high-quality design 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 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.

Qualifications / Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience including building infrastructure software for distributed systems.
• Programming experience with Python.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience with Linux software development.
• Exposure to Helm, Ansible and Puppet.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Exceptional team 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.
• Exposure to Go, C/C++, Kubernetes operators would be an asset.
• 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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