Staff Engineer, Cloud

Verda; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work flexibility

Job summary

Verda is building a full-stack AI cloud with data centers, hardware, and a cloud platform used by leading AI teams worldwide. Headquartered in Helsinki, with offices in London and San Francisco, Verda invites senior engineers to shape the future of scalable infrastructure.

We seek a Staff Engineer for Cloud to steer technical direction across domains, operate hands-on, and mentor engineers while aligning architecture and trade-offs across teams. Hybrid work in Helsinki or London, permanent role.

Qualifications

• Evidence of leading technical work beyond a single team.
• Track record of building or reshaping systems, not just maintenance.
• Experience designing APIs, data models, reliability, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across multiple Cloud domains and teams.
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives end to end.
• Align architecture and surface trade-offs with Leads, PM, and Eng Managers.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for correctness, testing, security, observability, performance, and data integrity.
• Resolve cross-domain disputes and document rationale.

Skills

Leadership across multiple teams

Go

JavaScript

System design & architecture

Mentoring senior engineers

Clear communication

Autonomy & ambiguity handling

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Production systems operations

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

As Staff Engineer for Cloud, you set technical direction across multiple domains and teams, not just one. Where a Lead owns a single domain end to end, you operate at the level above it: spotting where domains need to work together, resolving disputes that a single team can't settle alone, and lending your judgement to the hardest technical problems wherever they surface.

This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role. You have no direct reports; your influence comes from technical credibility, sound judgement, and a track record of being right about hard things. You work closely with Leads, Engineering Managers, Product, and our Principal Engineer to keep architecture, sequencing, and trade-offs coherent across Cloud as it grows.

Your responsibilities

• Set technical direction across multiple Cloud domains and teams, identifying where local decisions need to fit into a coherent whole.

• Lead high-impact, cross-team technical initiatives end to end, staying close enough to the code and production systems to make grounded calls.

• Partner with Leads, the Principal Engineer, Product, and Engineering Managers to align architecture, surface trade-offs, and keep dependencies visible.

• Set and uphold engineering standards for correctness, testing, security, observability, performance, and data integrity across the teams you touch.

• Resolve technical disagreements that cross domain boundaries, make the call, and document the reasoning so others can follow it.

• Review designs and code, and mentor senior engineers directly through real work, multiplying your impact through others.

• Turn recurring incidents and cross-domain friction into durable systemic fixes rather than one-off patches.

Your key competencies

We're not counting years of experience. We're looking for evidence that you've led technical work beyond the boundary of a single team, and that you can build and operate production systems in our core languages.

• Proficiency in both Go and JavaScript (or equivalent experience), with hands-on experience building and operating production systems in each.

• Experience setting technical direction across multiple systems or teams, not just owning one domain.

• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: sound judgement on architecture, APIs, data, reliability, security, and operability.

• A track record of building or substantially reshaping systems, not only maintaining or migrating existing ones.

• The ability to resolve technical disagreements across team boundaries and clearly explain the reasoning and trade-offs behind a decision.

• Comfort working directly in the code: debugging, reviewing, and operating production systems yourself.

• Proven ability to mentor engineers and Leads, raising technical quality without becoming the only person allowed to decide.

• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Comfort operating with ambiguity, incomplete systems, and a high degree of autonomy.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, public APIs, billing or payments, identity and access management, or developer-facing products.

• Experience with event-driven systems, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or production workflow systems.

• Prior experience in a Staff Engineer or equivalent org-wide technical role.

• Experience helping a domain or platform scale from an early implementation into a dependable product.

Why Verda

• 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 (Helsinki or London)

• Level: Staff Engineer

• Employment type: Full-time and permanent