Principal Kubernetes Control Plane Engineer

About the role

Bitdeer is seeking a Principal Kubernetes Control Plane Engineer to design and build the core control plane for its AI-native NeoCloud platform. You will create highly available, automated systems that manage thousands of Kubernetes control planes, ensuring zero‑downtime upgrades and seamless multi‑cluster federation for AI workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable control‑plane architectures using Cluster API for fleet‑wide automation.
• Develop custom Kubernetes Operators and CRDs to streamline lifecycle management.
• Optimize etcd performance and ensure robust state management across distributed regions.
• Implement secure multi‑tenant isolation at the API server layer.
• Architect zero‑downtime upgrade and multi‑cluster federation solutions.
• Collaborate with AI scheduling and fabric teams to integrate GPU orchestration.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and uphold high standards of distributed systems architecture.
• Identify and mitigate failure modes to maintain platform reliability for training and inference jobs.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep hands‑on expertise in Go.
• Extensive experience contributing to the Kubernetes ecosystem (Operators, API Server, etcd, Cluster API).
• Proven track record operating, debugging, and scaling large‑scale distributed systems in production.
• Strong technical leadership and communication skills.

Required skills

• Go programming language
• Kubernetes control‑plane components (API server, etcd)
• Cluster API
• Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
• Terraform and CI/CD pipeline automation
• Multi‑tenant isolation and API governance
• Experience with cloud‑native infrastructure and managed cloud services