Principal Kubernetes Control Plane Engineer

🕒 August 19

🏄 California, Texas – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Bitdeer Group

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2023-05

Consulting • Logistics • Construction

Bitdeer Group is a leader in the blockchain and high-performance computing industry. It is one of the world’s largest holders and suppliers of hash rate, offering specialized mining infrastructure and high-quality hash rate sharing products. Founded by cryptocurrency pioneer Jihan Wu and led by CEO Matt Linghui Kong, the company is headquartered in Singapore with mining datacenters in the United States, Norway, and Bhutan. Bitdeer is committed to providing comprehensive computing solutions, including cloud services and AI capabilities, while emphasizing dedication, authenticity, and trustworthiness in its mission to be the most reliable provider in the industry.

📋 Description

• Design and implement scalable control plane architectures using tools such as Cluster API for fleet-wide automation • Develop custom Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for lifecycle management and orchestration • Optimize etcd performance and ensure reliable state management across distributed cloud regions • Implement secure, multi-tenant isolation mechanisms at the API server layer • Architect zero-downtime upgrades and multi-cluster federation • Collaborate with AI Scheduling and Fabric engineering teams to integrate the control plane with GPU orchestration layers • Lead design reviews and mentor engineers on distributed systems architecture • Identify and mitigate control plane failure modes before they impact customer training or inference jobs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field • 8+ years of software engineering experience • Deep, hands-on expertise in Go • Extensive experience contributing to or extending the Kubernetes ecosystem, including Operators, API Server, etcd, and Cluster API • Proven track record of operating, debugging, and scaling large-scale distributed systems in production environments • Deep understanding of multi-tenancy models, cluster federation, and API governance in cloud-native environments • Familiarity with infrastructure automation, such as Terraform and CI/CD pipelines • Familiarity with managed cloud services • Strong technical leadership skills and ability to influence architectural decisions and align cross-functional teams • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex system requirements into manageable engineering milestones • Experience working in high-velocity, high-growth engineering environments is highly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities in accordance with country, state, and local laws • Non-discrimination protections based on race, color, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, marital and/or parental status, religion, political opinion, nationality, ethnic background or social origin, social status, disability, age, indigenous status, and union