Senior Engineer - Linux Application Developer

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.

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.

The right 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 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-performance cloud and container technologies for the Edge.
• Develop Kubernetes operators and supporting automation, observability, security, resilience and scale concerns.
• Work with the most dynamic and exciting open source software projects today – Kubernetes (K8S), Helm, OpenStack, and related projects.
• Work as part of a team focused on containerization, virtualization and fault tolerance/carrier‑grade development.
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open source project under the OpenInfra Foundation – a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge (
• 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 / master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience including building 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.
• 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.
• 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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