Software Defined Networking Engineer

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence.

At Verda, we’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - a platform for builders, researchers, and enterprises to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale. Our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy, powering a more sustainable AI ecosystem.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We operate with low hierarchy, high ownership, and a big vision. We’ve grown fast, and after raising $64M in Series A funding, we’re only getting started. This is an opportunity to join early and help shape how developers engage with the next generation of AI infrastructure.

We’re looking for a Senior Linux Network Engineer to act as a deep technical expert on host networking. This role sits at the intersection of software and networking, supporting our provisioning, infrastructure, and platform teams to build a high-performance, scalable, tenant-isolated networking stack across bare metal, virtual machines, and containers.

You’ll work hands-on with our existing networking stack while helping define what it should become as we scale 10–100x from our current usage. This is a critical role for Verda’s cloud platform as we continue to expand our OpenStack and container-based environments.

• Competitive cash and equity package, plus benefits (healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.
• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth
• A genuine opportunity to help build a category-defining European AI cloud from the ground up
• Work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem
• A high-performing team of around 70 people representing 27 nationalities

• Location: Remote (EU)
• Contract type: Full-time
• Start date: March - April
• Working language: English

• Act as a subject-matter expert on host networking, bridging the gap between software teams and networking infrastructure
• Partner closely with provisioning, platform, and networking teams to ensure optimal use of the host networking stack
• Design, build, and troubleshoot software-defined networking solutions for containerised and virtualised workloads
• Support and evolve OVN / OVS-based networking architectures to deliver high-performance, tenant-isolated connectivity
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks across the host networking stack
• Help software teams understand networking limitations, trade-offs, and best practices
• Lead proof-of-concept work, configuration, and rollout of new networking components
• Contribute to defining a unified hardware and software networking stack for servers, containers, and bare-metal nodes

• 7+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a strong focus on networkin
• Deep expertise in the Linux networking stack (iptables / nftables, routing, network namespaces, overlay networks)
• Solid working knowledge of FRR and EVPN
• Strong understanding of software-defined networking (SDN) principles
• Hands-on experience with virtualisation technologies such as KVM, containers, and Kubernetes networking
• Proven experience diagnosing and optimising network and host-level performance

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with OVN (Open Virtual Network) and OVS (Open vSwitch)
• Background as a cloud networking specialist or SRE with a strong networking focus
• Software development experience, ideally in infrastructure or networking domains
• Working knowledge of Python and/or Golang
• Familiarity with OpenStack environments
• Experience with overlay and virtual switching technologies (VXLAN, Geneve, STT)
• Knowledge of container networking and CNI ecosystems (Calico, Cilium, Flannel, OVN-Kubernetes, etc.)

• You’ve taken ownership of Verda’s software-defined networking stack
• You’re delivering continuous improvements into production
• You’ve made measurable performance improvements to customer VXLAN provisioning
• You’re a go-to expert where virtualisation, networking, and cloud infrastructure intersect
• You’ve built strong working relationships across Networking, Storage, SRE, Cloud, and Managed Services teams

• Intro call (45 minutes) - Meet Talent Acquisition and align on role and expectations
• Technical interview (60 minutes)
• Hiring Manager interview (45–60 minutes)
• Final interview (60 minutes) - Meet our CEO, CTO, and members of the team

Apply soon - we’ll close the role once we’ve identified the right person. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and we aim to keep all applicants informed as quickly as possible.