VP/Director Cloud Platform Software Engineering
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will set platform vision and goals, translate customer needs into priorities, and decide what to build, buy, or integrate. You will develop engineering managers and technical leaders, own delivery commitments, contribute technical judgment, improve AI-assisted engineering workflows, and raise standards for testing, security, observability, and operations.
Requirements
- Experience scaling an engineering organisation and developing managers and technical leaders
- Deep technical judgment in cloud platforms or distributed systems
- Confidence writing, reviewing, and debugging production software
- Experience carrying technical decisions through implementation
- Product and business judgment
- Practical use of coding agents
- Clear communication, influence, and collaboration
Responsibilities
- Set platform vision, goals, and team outcomes with Product
- Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders
- Own platform delivery, allocate capacity, remove blockers, and surface risks
- Contribute to designs and implementation and challenge counterproductive technical decisions
- Enable customer workflows across the console, APIs, SDKs, CLI, and agent integrations
- Improve AI-assisted development, testing, and review workflows
- Raise standards for testing, security, observability, and operations