Wind River
Software Architect – Wind River Orchestration and Automation Platform
Wind River, Cupertino, California, United States, 95014
Overview
Software Architect – Wind River Orchestration and Automation Platform Location: Walnut Creek, CA; San Diego, CA; Boston, MA; Troy, MI Wind River
is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems with a four-decade history of innovation, security, safety, and reliability. Wind River serves automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries and supports large-scale, distributed cloud systems. About The Opportunity
Wind River is at the forefront of enabling mission-critical, distributed cloud infrastructure for 5G and intelligent edge applications. The Wind River Conductor product provides a centralized, policy-driven platform to deploy, manage, and optimize applications and infrastructure across thousands of geographically distributed sites. It is purpose-built for carrier-grade and edge-aware environments, delivering zero-touch operations and blueprint-based automation. 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. While this is a software architecture role, you will also engage in targeted hands-on development and prototyping to validate architectural approaches, assess new technologies, and maintain a deep understanding of the product. If you are a strategic thinker who thrives on designing complex systems, but you also enjoy rolling up your sleeves when needed – building prototypes, reviewing code, or troubleshooting architectural issues – this is your stage. You will collaborate with Cloud team engineers and managers, other architects, product lines, groups, and teams across the company and in other locations, and support internal and external customers. You will also have opportunities to engage with and contribute to various internal and external open-source communities. 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: hybrid schedule or 100% remote options. Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row. 100% employee-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance. Flexible Time Off policy plus 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 health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flexible time off, 401k enrollment, and 12 paid holidays. Applicant Privacy Notice
Your privacy is of the utmost importance. Wind River adheres to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River’s Applicant Privacy Notice, available here.
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Software Architect – Wind River Orchestration and Automation Platform Location: Walnut Creek, CA; San Diego, CA; Boston, MA; Troy, MI Wind River
is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems with a four-decade history of innovation, security, safety, and reliability. Wind River serves automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries and supports large-scale, distributed cloud systems. About The Opportunity
Wind River is at the forefront of enabling mission-critical, distributed cloud infrastructure for 5G and intelligent edge applications. The Wind River Conductor product provides a centralized, policy-driven platform to deploy, manage, and optimize applications and infrastructure across thousands of geographically distributed sites. It is purpose-built for carrier-grade and edge-aware environments, delivering zero-touch operations and blueprint-based automation. 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. While this is a software architecture role, you will also engage in targeted hands-on development and prototyping to validate architectural approaches, assess new technologies, and maintain a deep understanding of the product. If you are a strategic thinker who thrives on designing complex systems, but you also enjoy rolling up your sleeves when needed – building prototypes, reviewing code, or troubleshooting architectural issues – this is your stage. You will collaborate with Cloud team engineers and managers, other architects, product lines, groups, and teams across the company and in other locations, and support internal and external customers. You will also have opportunities to engage with and contribute to various internal and external open-source communities. 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: hybrid schedule or 100% remote options. Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row. 100% employee-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance. Flexible Time Off policy plus 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 health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flexible time off, 401k enrollment, and 12 paid holidays. Applicant Privacy Notice
Your privacy is of the utmost importance. Wind River adheres to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River’s Applicant Privacy Notice, available here.
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