Senior Storage Engineer

Verda; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Verda is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer in Helsinki to lead the Ceph storage design and operation for our European cloud platform. You will own the storage direction, mentor engineers, and ensure reliable petabyte-scale data services for GPU workloads.

You will drive automation, optimize performance, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable storage solutions in a renewable-energy powered infra.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Ceph in production and multi-petabyte scale.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Proven track record in technical leadership and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and operation of Ceph clusters at petabyte scale.
• Set the technical direction for the storage area and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate across teams and with customers to address storage requirements.

Skills

Ceph storage systems

Ceph deployment

Linux internals

Networking

On-call / production ops

Automation

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Ceph

Ansible

Job description

Job Overview

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to powerful computing resources. We're building a fully featured European cloud computing platform-with everything one needs to run, scale, and deploy applications and workloads. In addition, our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy. We're ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We've already achieved a lot, yet we're only getting started. Now it's your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big! Join Verda while it's still being built - not once it's finished.

Storage is the foundation our AI cloud sits on. As our Senior Storage Engineer, you'll lead the design and operation of the Ceph clusters that hold customer data at petabyte scale - object, block, and file - and serve them to demanding GPU workloads. This is a senior, hands‑on role with clear leadership scope: you'll set the technical direction for the storage area, mentor other engineers, and be the person the company looks to when storage decisions have to be made.

Key Qualifications

• Deep expertise with Ceph: deployment and cluster architecture, day‑to‑day operations, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Track record of operating Ceph at multi‑petabyte scale in production.
• Demonstrated technical leadership – owning a storage or infrastructure area end‑to‑end, setting direction, and being accountable for outcomes.
• Experience mentoring engineers.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and internals.
• Solid networking knowledge and experience debugging distributed system issues.
• Experience running and maintaining mission‑critical production infrastructure, including on‑call.
• Experience building automation for infrastructure operations.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to represent the storage area in cross‑team and customer‑facing conversations.