Storage Engineering Manager — Scale & Reliability

Hub; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash and equity compensation

Hybrid and EU remote eligibility

Job summary

Verda is building a full-stack AI cloud with data centers, a cloud platform, and scalable storage services. As Engineering Manager for Storage, you will lead a small, senior team across Ceph-backed storage, VM volumes, and multi-site object storage.

You will own hiring, priorities, and reliability, turning deep expertise into a scalable, durable storage platform. You will partner with the VP of Infrastructure to shape architecture, drive multi-quarter programs, and ensure capability and

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing infrastructure or software engineers with growth experience.
• 5+ years hands-on with distributed storage in production (Ceph preferred).
• Deep understanding of block, file, and object storage and their trade-offs.
• Linux performance depth: NVMe, filesystems, storage networking, and analysis.
• Proven ability to transform heroics into repeatable processes (runbooks, change management).

Responsibilities

• Lead the Storage team, owning people, delivery, and reliability.
• Define team structure, growth plans, and recruitment.
• Set priorities across storage services and coordinate multi-quarter projects.
• Establish on-call rotation, incident management, and postmortems.
• Represent team to peers and stakeholders, manage capacity and roadmap.

Skills

People management

Distributed storage

Linux performance

On-call process

Roadmap planning

Technical leadership

Written communication

Tools

Ceph

Kubernetes

GitLab

Ubuntu

NVMe

Job description

Verda is building a full-stack AI cloud with data centers, a cloud platform, and scalable storage services. As Engineering Manager for Storage, you will lead a small, senior team across Ceph-backed storage, VM volumes, and multi-site object storage.

You will own hiring, priorities, and reliability, turning deep expertise into a scalable, durable storage platform. You will partner with the VP of Infrastructure to shape architecture, drive multi-quarter programs, and ensure capability and