Software Development Engineer – Cloud Native – eLxr

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Position at Wind River

Software Development Engineer – Cloud Native – eLxr

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.

Job Summary

We seek a Cloud Native Software Developer to help build eLxr, a Debian derivative that aims to provide a new Edge to Core solution for Linux customers.

As a key member of our team, you will be pivotal in designing, developing, and deploying the next generation of Kubernetes as a distributed OS. You'll work closely with Product Management, QA, OS dev, and customer-facing teams to ensure software requirements are met timely. Excellent communication skills, collaboration, and teamwork are essential, as you'll actively participate in global projects, working with colleagues worldwide. You should have 3+ years of cloud development experience to succeed in this role.

Key Responsibilities
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design and architect cloud-native solutions that align with business objectives and best practices.
• Build a Kubernetes distribution, package, and build a distributed OS for cloud-native applications.
• Fix internal and customer-reported defects and support customers building cloud-native applications.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows to streamline the deployment process and ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Implement security best practices and compliance requirements to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data in cloud-native environments.

Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 3-15 years’ experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or similar.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (k3s/k8s)
• Experience deploying and managing VMs + KVM.
• Experience with microservices architecture, serverless computing, and API design.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficiency in pipeline automation
• Proactive and adaptable with a willingness to learn new skills and technologies.

Desirable
• 3+ years’ experience building ML models in commercial products.
• Experience in NLP, LLM, Knowledge Graph, and related fields.

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