Senior Software Engineer, Platform Identity & Access Management

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.

We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

The Platform Auth team’s goal is to support our ‘one customer identity’ vision by providing tools, processes, and expertise for our engineering teams to create a unified access management experience while simplifying and standardizing engineering patterns in the space. We are looking for engineers to join our growing team! 

What you will be doing:

• Develop, manage and collaborate with other engineering teams for authentication, authorization, audit logging and monitoring
• Ensure customers and internal users are provided a secure, user-friendly way to access systems, including support for SAML, SCIM, MFA and passwordless auth
• Ensure resources have the proper level of authorization that is secure, easy for users to understand and easy for engineers to develop against
• Ensure events are captured for analysis and surfaced for both internal teams and customers as appropriate
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to understand database access management patterns, provide guidance for security or usability improvements and contribute where possible
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to understand integration patterns for third party systems and work to develop common patterns and platforms to enable secure management of credentials for this application
• Ensure systems comply with relevant security and compliance frameworks, such as NIST
• Create and maintain internal documentation to enable other teams to on-board and integrate with identity & access management systems
• Respond to on-call escalations involving the identity and access management platform

What you bring along:

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer, with focus on complex system design and development, working with diverse programming languages (i.e. C++, TypeScript)
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field; or equivalent experience
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization services to a standard such as SAML, SCIM, OAuth2, or OIDC
• Direct experience with Auth0, Okta, Cloud IAM (AWS, GCP, Azure) and AuthZ systems
• Experience implementing access control on web applications, APIs and databases
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud computing, and scalable architectures
• You are passionate about building secure systems that are easy to use and easy to develop against
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills
• You thrive in a fast paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward
• You have a high level of responsibility, ownership and accountability

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.

These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.

An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. 

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture?  Learn more about our values here.  Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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