Engineering Manager, Cloud
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
Engineering leadership is the lever for Verda's next stage. As we bring new data center capacity online, expand what our cloud platform offers, and serve more of the world's leading AI teams, the quality of our engineering teams determines the quality of everything we ship. AI has made execution faster. The difference now is the judgement to decide what to build, how to sequence it, and when to say no. That judgement, applied to how the team is built, how it makes decisions, and how it is managed, is what the Engineering Manager, Cloud owns.
Our Cloud engineering team builds the platform customers use to run their AI workloads on Verda, and it is growing quickly. As Engineering Manager, Cloud, you lead the people, shape how the team works, and run delivery end to end, so engineers can focus on building and the Tech Lead can focus on technical direction. You work closely with Product, who own product decisions, and the Tech Lead, who owns technical decisions, and the three of you agree priorities together.
Your responsibilities
Bring structure to complex, ambiguous problems. Our cloud platform sits where data centers, hardware, and software meet, and it serves customers running demanding AI workloads. You'll lead the team through problems that aren't fully scoped, where the right answer means weighing technical constraints against product, capacity, and customer realities.
Be a true cross-functional partner. You agree priorities with Product and the Tech Lead, weighing product goals, technical constraints, and the team's capacity. You also work with teams across Verda, from infrastructure to customer-facing teams, on decisions where responsibilities overlap, and you represent the Cloud team when plans are set.
Lead with technical credibility, amplified by AI. AI has narrowed the distance between management and hands-on engineering work. You use AI tools to explore the codebase, assess the complexity of work, and bring clarity to ambiguous asks. You don't need to be on the critical path writing code, but you need real technical judgement to challenge assumptions and coach the team, while the Tech Lead keeps technical ownership.
Build and develop the team as a craft. You have a clear view on how to hire, develop, and retain strong engineers. You own one-to-ones, feedback, career growth, onboarding, and fair performance management, and you give feedback that changes outcomes.
Operate in the details. Delivery isn't handed off to another role or layer. You shape planning, scope work with the Tech Lead, and keep priorities, commitments, dependencies, and risks visible, without adding process for its own sake. You take a team and run it end to end.
Fix the system, not the symptom. When delivery or coordination problems repeat, you change how the team works rather than managing around them. You take on the administrative and coordination work that would otherwise pull engineers away from building.
Own outcomes in a defining growth moment. Verda is growing fast, and the Cloud team's work shows up directly in what customers can do on our platform. You'll have the scope and autonomy to shape how the team builds, and your work will be visible in the trajectory of the business.
Your key competencies
You combine credible engineering context with serious people-management capability. Being accountable for team outcomes doesn't mean making every decision yourself.
Experience managing software engineers, with a track record of building, developing, and retaining strong teams.
A hands-on software engineering background, ideally with Go or a JavaScript stack, and the technical judgement that came with it.
Evidence of managing through clear expectations, regular feedback, development, and fair performance management.
Experience leading a team through rapid growth, ambiguity, or significant technical change, with the team coming out stronger.
Strong delivery judgement: creating focus, scoping work, surfacing trade-offs, managing dependencies, and acting on risk early.
Experience hiring and onboarding engineers while balancing delivery needs with longer-term capability.
Clear, direct communication in writing, in one-to-ones, and with both engineers and leadership, and strong collaboration with Product and technical leadership.
High standards for fairness, psychological safety, accountability, and sustainable performance.
Nice to have
Experience managing teams responsible for cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer products, or production infrastructure.
Experience working in a paired Engineering Manager and Tech Lead model.
Experience managing senior or Staff-level engineers and helping them grow into bigger roles.
Experience scaling a team or reshaping responsibilities as an organisation grows.
We don't expect anyone to match every bullet. If this sounds like work you'd do well, we'd like to hear from you.
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 (Helsinki or London)
Level: Engineering Manager
Employment type: Full-time and permanent
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.