ClickHouse

ClickHouse

Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization Platform

United States (remote) · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$141k-$208kDetected 122 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoRustC++Distributed SystemsSQLAWSGCPAzureOAuth

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About the role

  • About ClickHouse Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies.
  • The company's sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round.
  • Comfort with at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C++) and one application language (TypeScript, Python). - Hands-on experience designing and implementing an authentication or authorization service.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the platform services that power authentication, authorization, and audit across ClickHouse Cloud.
  • Model permissions and access control primitives (resources, roles, relationships, policies) that work across ClickHouse, SQL Console, ClickPipes, and HyperDX. Ship the libraries and APIs that other engineers build against.
  • Implement protocol-level support for SAML, SCIM, OIDC, OAuth2, and MFA/passwordless flows. Own the integrations that make enterprise SSO and provisioning work end to end.
  • Build the audit and authorization-decision telemetry pipeline so every access decision is observable, queryable, and surfaceable to customers.
  • Partner with product engineering teams to migrate bespoke per-product auth implementations onto the shared platform, and design APIs that make adoption straightforward.
  • Carry the platform on-call rotation and own production reliability for systems on the critical path of every customer request.
  • Minimum 4+ years building production backend systems at scale. Comfort with at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C++) and one application language (TypeScript, Python).
  • Examples include building a token issuer, an OIDC or OAuth2 provider, a policy engine, a permissions model, or an FGA/ReBAC system in the style of Zanzibar, OpenFGA, SpiceDB, or Cedar.
  • Working knowledge of SAML, SCIM, OIDC, and OAuth2 at the protocol level and are able to implement them.
  • Familiarity with identity vendors (Auth0, WorkOS, AWS/GCP/Azure IAM) as building blocks you've extended or integrated into a larger platform.

Compensation

  • The typical starting salary for this role in the US is

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly.
  • A $500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.

Company info

  • 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 are looking for engineers to join our growing team!
  • As part of a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
  • Are you interested in finding out more about our culture?
  • Learn more about our values here.

Equal opportunity

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This listing is sourced directly from ClickHouse's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.