Senior Engineer (SDET) Cloud
Location: Kanata, ON
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. Our software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world—from NASA’s Artemis I and the James Webb Space Telescope to the world’s largest Open RAN networks.

We’ve earned global recognition for our technology innovation and workplace culture, including 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 built on growth mindset, customer focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software-defined world.

YOUR ROLE
Within the Wind River Cloud team, this role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of the Wind River Conductor platform, a key orchestration engine in the Wind River Cloud Platform (WRCP). The position blends software development and advanced test automation to validate large-scale distributed systems built on Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native technologies.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE
In your daily work, you will:

Develop and test software for a complete cloud infrastructure software stack

Design and build scalable test automation for Wind River Conductor Design and implement high-quality code based on Kubernetes, containerized applications and distributed cloud systems

Develop end-to-end, integration, and system-level tests for distributed cloud systems

Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) and automation-first practices





Validate Kubernetes-based deployments across distributed environments

Own regression testing strategy, prioritization, and execution

Investigate and debug issues during product verification and customer integration

Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and test infrastructure

Work with open-source technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Helm, Ansible, and Docker

Support platform upgrades, automation, and lifecycle validation

Contribute and collaborate across development, QA/PV, and platform engineering teams

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field

5–7+ years of software engineering or SDET experience

Strong Python programming skills

Experience with Linux and shell scripting

Experience testing and deploying software with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm

Experience working in Agile/SCRUM teams

Experience building or testing distributed systems

Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Experience working with globally distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Cloudify or Wind River Cloud Platform

Understanding of OpenStack architecture (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone)

Experience with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, YAML, and TOSCA

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks

Background in high-availability or carrier-grade systems

Contributions to open-source projects

Experience with performance, scale, or chaos testing

What's the impact of the role

Ensure production-grade quality and reliability of the Conductor platform





Drive automation-first validation strategy across Wind River Cloud

Improve release quality and reduce regressions across distributed cloud deployments

Growth Opportunities

Work closely with experienced cloud architects, platform engineers, and Kubernetes experts

Gain hands-on experience building and validating production-grade cloud-native infrastructure platforms

Grow into technical ownership of automation frameworks, quality strategy, and platform features over time

Develop technical leadership within a fast-paced cloud software organization

BENEFITS Canada

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.

Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.

Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.

Matching RRSP.

Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.

Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.

Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.

Compensation
This role is compensation range is between $90,000 to $120,000 CAD plus annual incentive plan bonus. Compensation is determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members.

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