Principal Security Engineer
Bitdeer is a NASDAQ-listed (BTDR) high-performance computing and Bitcoin mining company headquartered in Singapore. It provides end-to-end Bitcoin mining solutions (mining hardware like SEALMINER, Minerbase containers, cloud mining, hosting, and mining farm/data center operations) as well as AI Cloud services offering GPU compute (NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, B200, H200, H100) for AI training and deployment. Its customers range from individual and institutional Bitcoin miners to enterprises and developers needing scalable AI/ML compute infrastructure.
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About Bitdeer
Bitdeer Technologies Group is a NASDAQ-listed (ticker: BTDR) technology company headquartered in Singapore that describes itself as a "world-leading" high-performance computing platform and Bitcoin mining services provider. The company is vertically integrated across the value chain, spanning IC design and hardware manufacturing (its own SEALMINER ASIC miners and Minerbase mobile cooling containers), infrastructure construction and cloud mining, and artificial intelligence/high-performance computing. Bitdeer handles the full range of mining-related processes for its customers, including equipment procurement, transport logistics, datacenter design and construction, equipment management, and daily operations, and offers institutional services, a hash rate market, and a miner rights trading marketplace via its mobile apps (Bitdeer App and Minerplus App). Since 2013 Bitdeer has built more than 30 data centers globally and currently operates 9 large-scale data centers (including one of North America's largest) with roughly 3GW of diversified energy capacity and tens of exahashes of managed hash rate, with major operations in the United States, Bhutan, Norway, Canada, Malaysia, and Ethiopia. Since 2023 it has also been expanding a global AI infrastructure business (Bitdeer AI Cloud), powered by thousands of NVIDIA GPUs (including GB200 NVL72 and B200, with GB300 NVL72 and B300 planned), offering turnkey AI datacenter solutions and GPU cloud compute for AI training and deployment starting at around $2/hour. Bitdeer serves both individual/retail Bitcoin miners and institutional clients, as well as AI developers and enterprises seeking scalable, energy-efficient compute.
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About the Role
You will lead hands-on security operations for AI data centers across the Americas. You will respond to critical incidents, develop detections and threat-hunting campaigns, harden hosts and networks, manage vulnerabilities and privileged access, and coordinate customer, legal, and headquarters incident communications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of hands-on information security experience
- At least 5 years focused on cloud infrastructure, IaaS, or data center security operations
- Incident Commander experience leading at least five P0/P1 security incidents
- Knowledge of NIST SP 800-61
- Expertise in Linux security, network protocols, TCP/IP, KVM/QEMU, and container and Kubernetes security
- Experience with a SIEM platform and writing detection rules
- SIGMA rule format knowledge
- Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK Cloud Matrix and Container Matrix
- Python and Shell programming skills
- Familiarity with eBPF, Tetragon, Falco, and Cilium
- Experience with Terraform or Ansible and Git workflows
- GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, OSCP, CISSP, or CCSP certification
- Professional fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese
- Willingness to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and cross-time-zone coordination
Responsibilities
- Lead 24/7 alert triage, incident response, and root cause analysis for Americas AI data centers
- Lead forensic investigation, containment, and recovery for high-severity security incidents
- Build incident response playbooks and runbooks
- Develop SIEM detection rules and threat-hunting campaigns
- Implement detection-as-code practices, including version-controlled rules, CI/CD, testing, and coverage metrics
- Assess pre-production security readiness and harden infrastructure
- Track vulnerabilities and lead regional vulnerability response
- Manage regional IAM and privileged access controls
- Operate perimeter firewalls, IPS, WAF, DDoS mitigation, and network security controls
- Respond to customer security tickets, abuse complaints, and incident notifications
- Handle law-enforcement requests in coordination with Legal
- Coordinate security handoffs and compliance evidence collection with Singapore headquarters
