Developer Experience Engineer

Verda; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash and equity compensation

Fringe benefits

Job summary

Verda in Helsinki is seeking a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to empower developers to build, test, deploy, and operate software on Kubernetes. You will partner with developers, Platform Engineers, and Security to turn workflows into scalable tooling.

You will shape the development lifecycle from local to CI/CD to production, design reusable pipelines, and build internal tooling and self-service capabilities that scale across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience.
• Hands-on experience deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, Git, containers and Linux.
• Experience designing reusable CI/CD pipelines and workflows with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or similar tooling.
• Ability to build and maintain software in Go, TypeScript, or Python.
• Clear communication and sound judgment when information is incomplete or teams disagree.
• Experience building AI/LLM tools or agentic workflows, including connecting them to tools and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Treat developers as customers: observe workflows and use feedback to identify problems.
• Model architecture and cross-team dependencies; balance conflicting needs with Dev and Security.
• Research and build AI tools and agentic workflows.
• Improve the software development lifecycle from local development to CI/CD to Kubernetes to production.
• Contribute to onboarding, environments, access, and common development workflows.
• Own improvements from discovery through rollout, documentation, and ongoing support.
• Design and standardize DevOps workflows and delivery patterns for many teams.
• Build and improve CI/CD across GitLab, GitHub runners, and various stacks.
• Develop internal tooling, CLIs, APIs, integrations, and platform abstractions.
• Create reusable golden paths, templates, pipelines, and self-service tooling.

Skills

Software Engineering

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Developer Experience

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git/GitHub

Go/TypeScript/Python

Communication

AI/LLM tools

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Rancher

Helm

Job description

At Verda, we're building a full-stack AI cloud, covering everything from data centers and hardware to our own cloud platform that the world's leading AI teams use to do serious AI work.

We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco.

Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

About the role

We're looking for a Developer Experience Engineer to make it easier and faster for our developers to build, test, deploy, and operate software on Kubernetes.

You’ll be part of the Platform Team, working closely with developers, Platform Engineers and Security. Your work starts with understanding how developers work, where they struggle, and which problems are worth solving. You’ll turn that understanding into tooling and workflows that teams can use independently.

We're building an AI cloud. The company is growing rapidly. This is an opportunity to work with and learn from a very senior team and see directly how your efforts impact shipping products.

Your responsibilities

• Treat developers as customers: talk to them, observe their workflows, and use feedback and data to distinguish recurring symptoms from underlying problems.

• Build a picture of the architecture and how teams depend on each other. Work through conflicting needs with developers, Platform, and Security to agree which problems to tackle and why.

• Research and build AI tools and agentic workflows.

• Improve the software development lifecycle: local development → CI/CD → Kubernetes → production.

• Contribute to better development journey, including onboarding, environments, access, and common development workflows.

• Own improvements from discovery and prototyping through rollout, documentation, and ongoing support. Check whether they help developers and refine them based on feedback.

• Design and standardize DevOps workflows and delivery patterns that scale across hundreds of developers and services, supporting different teams and workloads.

• Build and improve CI/CD across GitLab, GitHub, runners, and different application stacks.

• Build internal tooling, CLIs, APIs, integrations, and platform abstractions.

• Build reusable golden paths, templates, pipelines, and self-service tooling that address needs shared across teams.

Your key competencies

• Experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience.

• Hands-on experience deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters.

• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, Git, containers, and Linux.

• Experience designing reusable CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar tooling.

• Ability to build and maintain software in Go, TypeScript, or Python.

• Clear communication and sound judgment when information is incomplete or teams disagree. You can connect details across systems, explain trade-offs, and help people reach a decision.

• Judgment about when to adopt proven tools, extend existing systems, or build something new, taking ongoing maintenance into account.

• Experience building AI/LLM tools or agentic workflows, including connecting them to tools and APIs and evaluating their reliability. Prototypes and personal projects count.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes Operators / CRDs

• Rancher, Helm, Kustomize

• Developer portals or Internal Developer Platforms

• Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, or Loki

• LLM inference, AI infrastructure, or GPU workloads

• Experience designing systems on GCP, AWS, or Azure, or building managed cloud services

Why Verda

• Cash and equity compensation along with various fringe benefits.

• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.

• 40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

• A real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Work mode: Hybrid, based in Helsinki

• Level: Senior

• Employment type: Full time and permanent