--- title: 'Principal, Data Operations at Hut 8' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-data-operations-hut-8-miami-adwfxnacrgxh' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Principal, Data Operations at Hut 8 - **Company:** Hut 8 - **Location:** Miami, FL - **Posted:** 2026-09-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hut8/jobs/5405057008 ## Job description ## ABOUT HUT 8 Imagine the ultimate destination for those who want to work at the cutting edge of technology, energy, and infrastructure. Hut 8 is on a mission to build and operate some of the world’s largest data centers for next-generation computing workloads, including AI, Colocation, Cloud, and Bitcoin Mining. We are proud to offer interesting and challenging opportunities for individuals who want to build teams, solve problems, and make an impact from day one. If you’re an ambitious individual looking for a career that is as rewarding as it is challenging, you’ve come to the right place. ## ABOUT THE ROLE The Principal Data Operations builds and operates the systems that move Hut 8’s business and operational data from source systems into reliable, secure, analytics-ready data products. This includes source integrations, API and SFTP ingestion, ETL (Airflow) orchestration, data transformation, warehousing, cloud infrastructure configuration, monitoring, data quality, and production support. This is an individual-contributor role. Principal Data Operations candidates will deliver work within established patterns and grow their ownership of production systems. Senior candidates will lead complex technical initiatives, improve standards, and provide technical guidance through design and code review. ## What You'll Do - Translate business and stakeholder requirements into reliable, well-documented data pipelines and services. - Build and maintain ingestion from APIs, SFTP endpoints, files, databases, and cloud services, including coordination with external providers. - Develop and operate Airflow and Google Cloud Composer workflows, including dependencies, retries, backfills, and alerting. - Model and deliver data across BigQuery, Snowflake, Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Storage using dbt, data marts, and semantic-layer objects. - Support the cloud infrastructure behind data products, including Cloud Run, container images, Artifact Registry, IAM, service accounts, and Secret Manager. - Design pipelines for idempotency, safe reruns, recoverability, and failure containment, with freshness, reconciliation, schema, and completeness checks. - Improve observability through logs, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks, and validate that downstream data products are complete and accurate. - Own production support for data systems, resolving incidents through root-cause analysis and durable corrective actions. - Apply least-privilege access, secure secrets management, and sensitive-data controls, and support access reviews and data-governance practices. - Work within GitHub pull-request, testing, CI/CD, and change-management practices; at the Senior level, lead complex integrations, migrations, reliability initiatives, and technical reviews. ## ABOUT YOU - 3+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, DataOps, or a related field; 5+ years for Senior level. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - Strong Python and SQL skills. - Experience operating production data pipelines. - Experience with Airflow or Google Cloud Composer. - Experience with BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, and Snowflake. - Familiarity with Git, GitHub, pull requests, automated testing, and CI/CD. - Linux and Bash familiarity. - Experience integrating REST APIs, SFTP, scheduled files, or databases. - Understanding of data quality, freshness, reconciliation, schema evolution, and monitoring. - Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. ## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related field. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - Strong Python and SQL skills. - Experience operating production systems and data pipelines. - Experience with Airflow or Google Cloud Composer. - Experience with BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, and Snowflake. - Familiarity with Git, GitHub, pull requests, automated testing, and CI/CD. - Experience integrating REST APIs, SFTP, scheduled files, or databases. - Understanding of data quality, freshness, reconciliation, schema evolution, and monitoring. - Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills. Nice to Haves: - Experience with dbt, data modeling, data marts, metadata, lineage, or semantic layers. - Experience with Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, IAM, Secret Manager, Docker, or service accounts. - Experience with Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL or time-series data. - Experience with Grafana, Tableau, Metabase, or similar reporting tools. - Experience with finance, operational telemetry, infrastructure monitoring, or other time-series data. - Experience with data governance, access reviews, and sensitive-data handling. - Experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring peers for the Senior level. ## ABOUT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT This role is in office at our corporate headquarters in the Brickell area of Miami, Florida. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. WHAT MAKES HUT 8 A GREAT PLACE TO WORK Hut 8 offers a benefits and wellness program that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as paid time off. We are proud to invest in building the best team in the industry. At all levels of the organization, we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, radical transparency, and relentless growth mentality. At Hut 8, you will have the opportunity to: ▶ Work with bright, driven peers from a range of educational and professional backgrounds including software development, energy, engineering, entrepreneurship, investment banking, private equity, and management consulting ▶ Design and pitch new products, services, and other initiatives to a leadership team consisting of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned executives and backed by a board of directors consisting of industry veterans of energy, finance, and government ▶ Debate ideas and alternatives in a truly meritocratic setting where the learning curve is steep and the lessons come from both senior and junior members of the team ▶ Build a lifelong network of friends and professional connections at the cutting-edge intersection of technology, energy, and infrastructure ## About Hut 8 ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Hut 8 is an energy infrastructure platform that integrates power, digital infrastructure, and compute at scale to fuel next-generation, energy-intensive technologies including Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing (HPC/AI). - **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: HUT; TSX: HUT) - **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed as individual founders; the company emerged from the Hut 8 Mining Corp. lineage. ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Energy Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Compute, Bitcoin Mining. - **Target customers**: B2B; primarily enterprise and institutional clients needing purpose-built data centers, colocation, and compute capacity for AI and HPC workloads. Also includes institutional energy partners and Bitcoin mining operators. - **Mission/Purpose**: To build a platform that evolves alongside energy-intensive technologies for decades to come—from world-shaping innovations today to the breakthroughs yet to be achieved. They take a "power-first, innovation-driven" approach. ## Products & Services - **Energy Infrastructure (Power)**: Acquisition, development, and management of critical energy assets—powered land, interconnects, substations, switchyards, and generation assets. This is the foundational layer of their platform. - **Digital Infrastructure (Data Centers)**: Design, build, monetize, and operate purpose-built facilities for energy-intensive applications (AI, HPC, Bitcoin mining). Key assets include the Beacon Point (1 GW AI campus) and River Bend (330 MW) sites. - **Compute (HPC & AI)**: Operating businesses that acquire, deploy, and monetize specialized hardware for next-generation workloads. This includes their **Highrise.ai** subsidiary, which commercializes AI infrastructure and cloud capacity. - **Bitcoin Mining & Managed Services**: Legacy and ongoing ASIC compute operations across sites in Alberta, New York, and Texas. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed in provided sources. As a public company (NASDAQ: HUT), market cap fluctuates with stock price. - **Key Metric**: **1,020 megawatts** of energy capacity under management across 15 sites in the US and Canada (as of mid-2026). They recently commercialized the first phase of their 1 GW Beacon Point AI data center campus with a **15-year, 352 MW IT lease** carrying a base-term contract value of **$9.8 billion**. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Macquarie (joint venture partner), a Fortune 200 renewable energy producer (JV partner), and institutional debt investors (closed $4.25 billion in investment-grade senior secured notes for Beacon Point). - **Growth Signals**: Massive headcount growth (+55.7% year-over-year to 175 employees). Active job postings have grown +116.7% year-over-year (52 open roles). They are aggressively building out their AI/HPC commercial arm (Highrise.ai) and expanding their energy origination team. ## Competitive Advantages - **Power-First Approach**: Unlike pure data center developers, Hut 8 originates and owns the power assets (land, interconnects, substations) first, giving them a structural advantage in speed and cost to market. - **Multi-Use Case Flexibility**: They can deploy Bitcoin mining as a "transitional load" to generate cash flow while building out higher-return AI/HPC data centers on the same site. This allows rapid, cost-effective commercialization. - **Scale & Financial Backing**: A 1 GW campus (Beacon Point) with a $9.8B contracted lease and $4.25B in investment-grade debt financing is a rare, institutional-grade asset in the AI infrastructure space. - **Integrated Platform**: They own the full stack—power, physical data centers, and compute operations—enabling them to optimize assets for the highest risk-adjusted return over time. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling AI Infrastructure**: The primary current focus is commercializing the Beacon Point campus and building out River Bend for AI compute. The Highrise.ai subsidiary is central to this push. - **Energy Origination**: Aggressively acquiring and developing new power assets (interconnects, substations) across North America. - **Platform Optimization**: Actively managing the portfolio to transition assets from Bitcoin mining to higher-return HPC/AI use cases over time. - **Capital Discipline**: Using creative financing (investment-grade notes, JVs) to fund massive capital expenditures while maintaining a disciplined balance sheet. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Work**: Employees work at the intersection of energy and AI—two of the most transformative industries. The company is building infrastructure that powers the next generation of technology. - **Culture & Values**: Certified as a **Great Place to Work®** and included in Newsweek's America's Greatest Companies. Culture is described as "ownership mindset," "merit-based decision-making," "no room for ego," and "the best idea wins." CEO Asher Genoot emphasizes "substance over flash." - **Growth Trajectory**: The company is in a hyper-growth phase (55% headcount growth YoY, 117% increase in job postings). This offers rapid career advancement and the chance to shape a scaling organization. - **Work Environment**: Headquarters in **Miami, FL**, with roles available in San Francisco, Baton Rouge, Nueces County (TX), and remote options for some positions (e.g., Director, Energy Origination is remote). - **Notable Perks**: Working with a team of "sector veterans and proven builder-operators." Emphasis on intellectual rigor, ownership, and solving hard problems at scale. ## Sources 1. [Hut 8 Corporate Website](https://www.hut8.com/) 2. [Hut 8 Careers Page (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hut8) 3. [Hut 8 LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hut8corp) 4. [Hut 8 About Us Page](https://www.hut8.com/about-us) 5. 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