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Software Architect – Wind River Orchestration and Automation Platform

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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 serves automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries. The company's software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world, including NASA Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. Wind River has achieved 5G milestones including a world's first 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks with Vodafone. The company has been recognized for technology innovation and leadership, and for workplace culture, including Great Place to Work certification and a Top Workplace designation for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a culture focused on growth mindset, customer focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

About The Opportunity

Wind River enables mission-critical, distributed cloud infrastructure for 5G and intelligent edge applications. The Wind River Conductor product serves as the orchestration and automation backbone—providing a centralized, policy-driven platform to deploy, manage, and optimize applications and infrastructure across thousands of geographically dispersed sites. It is built for carrier-grade and edge-aware environments, delivering zero-touch operations and blueprint-based automation to ensure consistent, efficient, and resilient operations from the network core to the far edge. This is a unique opportunity to shape the architecture of a platform redefining how the industry builds and operates large-scale, distributed cloud systems.

Your Role

As a Software Architect, you will lead the architecture for Wind River Conductor, the orchestration and automation backbone for mission-critical, distributed cloud infrastructure. Define the vision, set the roadmap, and architect solutions for operations at scale and zero-touch provisioning across thousands of sites worldwide. Balance strategic decision-making with targeted hands-on prototyping to validate designs. Collaborate with global engineering teams, customers, and open-source communities to shape the future of telecom and intelligent edge automation. You will engage in targeted hands-on development and prototyping to validate architectural approaches, assess new technologies, and maintain a deep understanding of the product. You will report to the Senior Director of Cloud Architecture within the CTO organization of Wind River.

In Your Daily Job You Will

• Define and maintain the architectural vision for Wind River Conductor, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security across thousands of distributed sites.
• Lead architectural decision-making for core automation and orchestration capabilities, balancing technical innovation with product delivery priorities.
• Design architectures for operations at scale, enabling consistent, reliable, and repeatable management of thousands of geographically distributed sites.
• Architect zero-touch provisioning frameworks that securely onboard new sites and systems without manual intervention, using policy-driven automation and declarative service definitions.
• Prototype and validate key product changes, emerging technologies, and architectural patterns to guide implementation teams.
• Partner with engineering managers to align design decisions with long-term platform strategy.
• Collaborate with customers, product management, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable architecture solutions.
• Represent Wind River in industry forums and open-source communities, influencing standards and best practices.
• Mentor engineers on architectural principles and design trade-offs.

How You Will Contribute

• Core Technical Expertise (must have):
• Cloud-native architecture: Kubernetes, container orchestration, multi-cloud environments (Private Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Automation & orchestration frameworks: Cloudify, ArgoCD, Terraform, TOSCA models, ONAP.
• Scalable distributed systems: Designing for high availability, security, and operational automation at global scale.
• Expertise in large-scale distributed system design, including federation, fault isolation, and asynchronous orchestration.
• Understanding of zero-touch provisioning architectures, including secure bootstrap mechanisms, device attestation, and policy-driven deployment pipelines.
• Proven track record in designing for immutable infrastructure, declarative configuration management, and event-driven automation to achieve predictable and repeatable outcomes at scale.
• Service modeling & APIs: REST API design, data modeling, and integration strategies.

Technical Proficiency for Prototyping & Deep Product Understanding (strongly preferred):

• Backend: Python, relational databases (PostgreSQL).
• Frontend: TypeScript, modern JS frameworks, state management (Redux or equivalent).
• Security: Secure coding practices, authentication/authorization models.

Desirable Experience

• ETSI and O-RAN standards.
• Open-source contribution and governance experience.

Benefits

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this role's listed grade level is $150,000 to $210,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $170,000 to $230,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

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Additional Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development