Cloud Platform - Senior Engineer Storage

Your Role

Wind River, An Aptiv Company, is seeking a Cloud Platform - Senior Engineer Storage to develop highly available, distributed storage capabilities for cloud and edge environments. This is a unique opportunity to design and develop resilient storage solutions leveraging technologies such as Kubernetes, Ceph, Rook, OpenStack, and StarlingX for mission-critical intelligent systems.

You will contribute to architecture, development, troubleshooting, and open-source initiatives while helping deliver scalable and reliable infrastructure across distributed edge environments. You will work with modern cloud-native storage technologies and collaborate with upstream communities to improve performance, resiliency, automation, and operational efficiency.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly available, distributed storage solutions for cloud and edge environments.
• Develop and optimize persistent storage for Kubernetes workloads, focusing on performance, resiliency, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Integrate and enhance container-native storage technologies, including Ceph, Rook, Kubernetes CSI drivers, and StarlingX.
• Implement data replication, synchronization, recovery, and data protection mechanisms across distributed edge nodes.
• Diagnose and resolve Linux storage issues involving I/O performance, latency, capacity management, node failures, and system resiliency.
• Enhance storage observability through metrics, alerting, logging, and AI-assisted approaches to anomaly detection and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with upstream communities including Ceph, Kubernetes, and OpenStack, while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering, CI/CD, testing, and operational workflows.

Your Background

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including building infrastructure software for distributed systems.
• Strong Python programming experience and experience contributing to system architecture and design, including reliability and scalability.
• Experience with distributed storage technologies such as Ceph and understanding of block, file, and object storage, replication, consistency, and data durability.
• Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes storage architecture, including Persistent Volumes (PV), Persistent Volume Claims (PVC), CSI drivers, and container-native storage frameworks such as Rook.
• Experience debugging storage and I/O performance issues in Linux environments, as well as backup/restore, disaster recovery, and data protection strategies.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum environments; exposure to Helm, Ansible, Puppet, Go, C/C++, Kubernetes operators, edge computing, or open-source contributions is preferred.

Why join Wind River / Aptiv?

• You grow at Aptiv. Aptiv's winning culture is global by design. We bring together diverse perspectives, cultures, and business contexts to solve our customers' toughest challenges. In this environment, every individual can grow, lead, and make an impact, regardless of background, because inclusion fuels how we innovate and win.
• You make an impact at Aptiv. One of the strengths of humanity is our drive to progress, to improve, to achieve more tomorrow than we did yesterday. People need solutions they can trust when it matters most. At Aptiv, you are building those solutions every day.
• You have support at Aptiv. We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family, your physical health, and your mental health with a competitive benefits package.

Your Benefits at Aptiv

• Workplace flexibility with a hybrid work arrangement.
• 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 and learning resources, including an Employee Assistance Program, Unmind, LinkedIn Learning, and seminars.

Compensation

The compensation range for this role is $95,000 to $120,000 CAD plus an annual incentive plan bonus. Compensation is determined based on education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, abilities, and internal equity.

Security Clearance Requirements

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process regarding their eligibility to perform the fundamental duties of the position, as required by applicable law. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon the candidate’s legal ability to perform those duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations under applicable human rights and privacy laws throughout this process.

Meet the Next Generation Aptiv

At Aptiv, we deliver innovative solutions that people trust when it matters most.

Progress is never static. It is about reaching further, exploring new possibilities, and enabling mobility. Aptiv empowers customers to create solutions people rely on, advancing safety and autonomy in Automotive and Commercial Vehicles, enabling mission-critical performance in Aerospace & Defense, and powering intelligent systems across Energy, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. We also drive precision and efficiency in Industrials & Robotics and support life-critical innovation in Medical technologies.

Guided by our winning culture and values to Think & Act Like Owners, as One Team, and Play to Win, we turn commitment into results and achieve more together.

Join Us to Deliver Innovative Solutions That People Trust!

#LI-AL3

Privacy Notice - Active Candidates: https://www.aptiv.com/privacy-notice-active-candidates

Aptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.