Job Description

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ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Software Engineer - OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission?critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, we've powered billions of devices across aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries. From NASA's Artemis I and the James Webb Space Telescope to the world's largest Open RAN networks, our software enables the safest and most secure systems in the world.


We've earned recognition for innovation and workplace culture, including Great Place to Work certification and "Top Workplace" honors for ten consecutive years. Join us to help advance the future of the software?defined world.

About the Opportunity

Within the Wind River Cloud team, you'll design and build

cloud infrastructure software

with a focus on

OpenStack development

. You'll contribute to Wind River's leadership in the StarlingX open?source project, creating solutions for highly distributed edge systems in 5G, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation.


This role emphasizes

software engineering and coding

: developing APIs, services, and integrations for OpenStack and cloud?native platforms, while collaborating with DevOps teams on deployment and automation.

Primary Responsibilities

Design and implement high?quality software

for distributed cloud infrastructure using Python and OpenStack APIs.

Develop extensions, plugins, and services

for OpenStack projects (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone).

Build reusable libraries and APIs

to integrate OpenStack with Kubernetes and containerized applications. Apply

Test?Driven Development (TDD)

practices to ensure robust, maintainable code. Contribute to

platform upgrade features

and collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD integration. Investigate and resolve issues during product verification and customer integration. Use Linux and shell scripting for supporting development tasks and debugging. Participate in agile development processes, shifting across coding, testing, and automation as needed. Work responsibly with open?source technologies, including licensing awareness and CVE remediation. Actively contribute to

open?source communities

such as StarlingX and OpenStack.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field. 3+ years of professional

software development

experience. 2+ years of programming experience with

Python

. Strong knowledge of

Linux systems

and shell scripting. Experience developing software for

scalable, distributed systems

. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm (deployment collaboration). Experience working in

Agile SCRUM teams

. Excellent analytical, debugging, and communication skills. Professional experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Deep understanding of

OpenStack architecture

(Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone). Experience developing

OpenStack services, plugins, or integrations

. Track record of delivering mission?critical, 24x7 production systems. Contributions to OpenStack or other open?source projects. Familiarity with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, YAML, and TOSCA. Experience managing open?source licensing and CVE remediation. Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies independently.

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. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com .

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