Senior Storage Engineer

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.
Why Verda
Cash and equity compensation along with local benefits.
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: Remote
Level: Mid / Senior
Employment type: Full time and permanent
Compensation: USD 110,000 to USD 130,000 base salary, depending on experience and skills, plus equity. The final offer will reflect your experience, capabilities, and location within the range.
About The Role
The company is constructing a European cloud computing platform powered by renewable energy. As Senior Storage Engineer, you would lead the architecture and operations of Ceph clusters handling petabyte-scale customer data, serving demanding GPU workloads across object, block, and file storage systems.
Your Responsibilities
Direct design, deployment, and operation of large-scale production Ceph clusters
Establish technical direction for storage infrastructure including architecture and operational standards
Launch a managed Object Storage product with access keys, bucket management, and SLOs
Scale storage systems to petabytes or hundreds of petabytes
Manage Ceph across CephFS, RBD, and RADOS Gateway interfaces
Mentor engineers through code review, design collaboration, and shared on-call responsibilities
Enhance observability, automation, and operational tooling
Diagnose complex performance issues in distributed storage environments
Collaborate with compute and networking teams on GPU cluster integration
Oversee capacity planning, infrastructure upgrades, and lifecycle management
Engage in production operations and incident response leadership
Your key competencies
Extensive Ceph expertise including deployment, operations, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
Demonstrated experience operating Ceph at multi-petabyte production scale
Proven technical leadership managing storage infrastructure end-to-end
Engineering mentorship experience
Advanced Linux systems/DevOps skills, baremetal and internals knowledge
Solid networking expertise with distributed systems debugging capability
Mission-critical production infrastructure operations background
Infrastructure automation development experience
Strong collaboration and cross-team communication abilities
Nice to have
RADOS Gateway production experience as managed Object Storage
CephFS production environment familiarity
Ansible proficiency
Expertise with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar
Cloud provider storage operations background
Experience with 10-100 PB scale storage systems
Understanding of GPU/AI workload storage patterns
What's Next
We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.
Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don't accept applications sent by email.

Work arrangement
Yes