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Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco.\nJoin Verda while it's still being built - not once it's finished.\n\nAbout the roleAs 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.\nThis 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.\n\nYour responsibilitiesSet technical direction across multiple Cloud domains and teams, identifying where local decisions need to fit into a coherent whole.\n\nLead high-impact, cross-team technical initiatives end to end, staying close enough to the code and production systems to make grounded calls.\n\nPartner with Leads, the Principal Engineer, Product, and Engineering Managers to align architecture, surface trade-offs, and keep dependencies visible.\n\nSet and uphold engineering standards for correctness, testing, security, observability, performance, and data integrity across the teams you touch.\n\nResolve technical disagreements that cross domain boundaries, make the call, and document the reasoning so others can follow it.\n\nReview designs and code, and mentor senior engineers directly through real work, multiplying your impact through others.\n\nTurn recurring incidents and cross-domain friction into durable systemic fixes rather than one-off patches.\n\nYour key competenciesWe'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.\nProficiency in both Go and JavaScript (or equivalent experience), with hands-on experience building and operating production systems in each.\n\nExperience setting technical direction across multiple systems or teams, not just owning one domain.\n\nStrong software-engineering fundamentals: sound judgement on architecture, APIs, data, reliability, security, and operability.\n\nA track record of building or substantially reshaping systems, not only maintaining or migrating existing ones.\n\nThe ability to resolve technical disagreements across team boundaries and clearly explain the reasoning and trade-offs behind a decision.\n\nComfort working directly in the code: debugging, reviewing, and operating production systems yourself.\n\nProven ability to mentor engineers and Leads, raising technical quality without becoming the only person allowed to decide.\n\nClear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nComfort operating with ambiguity, incomplete systems, and a high degree of autonomy.\n\nNice to haveExperience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, public APIs, billing or payments, identity and access management, or developer-facing products.\n\nExperience with event-driven systems, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or production workflow systems.\n\nPrior experience in a Staff Engineer or equivalent org-wide technical role.\n\nExperience helping a domain or platform scale from an early implementation into a dependable product.\n\nWhy VerdaProfitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.\n\n40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.\n\nA real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.\n\nPracticalitiesWork mode: Hybrid (Helsinki or London)\n\nLevel: Staff Engineer\n\nEmployment type: Full-time and permanent\n\nWhat's nextWe'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.\n\nPlease submit your application through our Careers page. 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