Software Architect Wind River Orchestration and Automation Platform

Software Architect Wind River Orchestration and Automation Platform at Wind River. Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. The company powers billions of systems requiring high levels of security, safety, and reliability across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries. Wind River supports customers on the journey toward the intelligent machine economy and has been involved in NASA missions, 5G milestones, and large Open RAN initiatives. The company has received industry recognition for technology innovation and workplace culture.
Wind River is 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 dispersed sites. It is built for carrier-grade and edge-aware environments with zero-touch operations and blueprint-based automation.
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. 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. 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.
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.
Cloud-native architecture: Kubernetes, container orchestration, multi-cloud environments (Private Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP).
Automation & orchestration frameworks: Designing for high availability, security, and operational automation at global scale.
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.
Backend: Python, relational databases (PostgreSQL).
Frontend: TypeScript, modern JS frameworks, state management (Redux or equivalent).
Security: Secure coding practices, authentication/authorization models.
Flexible home office We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote
~ 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
~ Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays
~Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
~ The annual base salary range for this roles 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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