Storage Engineering Manager

Role overview Lead the team responsible for storage services underpinning a cloud platform for demanding AI workloads. The scope spans block, file, and S3-compatible object storage across shared and dedicated clusters, new data center deployments, service reliability, performance, capacity, and security. You will shape how a small, experienced team grows and delivers as infrastructure expands.

Responsibilities - Hire, onboard, and develop engineers while building team depth and sustainable ownership. - Set priorities across storage services and internal customers, and drive multi-quarter projects to completion. - Define durability and availability goals, improve operational practices, and take accountability for service reliability. - Establish clear processes for requests, planning, change management, runbooks, and delivery tracking. - Guide storage architecture and capacity decisions, including strategy for shared filesystems used by AI workloads. - Oversee incident response and a 24/7 on-call function, strengthening its effectiveness and sustainability. - Support repeatable storage cluster deployment as new data centers come online.

Requirements - Strong technical understanding of production storage systems and the work required to operate them reliably. - Experience leading engineers and growing a team beyond reliance on individual expertise. - Ability to prioritize competing requests and communicate delivery plans clearly. - Experience improving incident response, on-call practices, operational documentation, and change processes. - Strong written communication, with the ability to turn ambiguity into practical plans.

Nice to have Experience with Ceph object storage and multisite replication; high-performance parallel filesystems; storage for GPU or machine learning workloads; QEMU/KVM or Kubernetes storage; multi-data-center operations; vendor evaluations; or storage security and compliance.

Benefits and work setup Hybrid work is available from Helsinki or London, or fully remote within the EU. Compensation includes cash and equity, with local benefits.