Senior Kubernetes Control Plane Engineer

Location: Singapore, SG

Company

hirify.global provides Bitcoin mining solutions, ASIC hardware, datacenter infrastructure, and AI cloud capabilities across a global portfolio of computing and energy assets.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable Kubernetes control plane architectures using Cluster API for fleet-wide automation.
• Develop Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions to manage infrastructure lifecycles and orchestration.
• Optimize etcd and distributed state management across cloud regions.
• Implement API-server-level multi-tenant isolation and architect zero-downtime upgrades and multi-cluster federation.
• Integrate the control plane with AI scheduling and GPU orchestration layers.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and identify control plane failure modes before they affect customer training and inference workloads.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep hands-on expertise in Go.
• Extensive experience contributing to or extending the Kubernetes ecosystem, including Operators, API Server, etcd, or Cluster API.
• Experience operating, debugging, and scaling large distributed systems in production.
• Strong understanding of multi-tenancy, cluster federation, API governance, infrastructure automation, and managed cloud services.
• Strong technical leadership and communication skills for driving architecture decisions and cross-functional execution.

Nice to have

• Experience in high-velocity, high-growth engineering environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment that values authenticity and diverse perspectives.
• Startup-oriented atmosphere within a fast-growing company.
• Opportunities to contribute to digital asset and AI infrastructure projects.
• Autonomy, personal accountability, and opportunities for growth and learning.
• Training, mentoring, welfare benefits, and developmental opportunities.