ClickHouse
Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization Platform
Canada (remote) · Senior
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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.
Nice to have
- This includes a unified RBAC/ReBAC service, token issuance and session handling, and the SDKs that product teams embed to make authorization decision.
- Model permissions and access control primitives (resources, roles, relationships, policies) that work across ClickHouse, SQL Console, ClickPipes, and HyperDX.
- 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.
- Experience designing APIs and SDKs that other engineers depend on, with strong opinions on what makes them adoptable.
- Experience operating distributed systems at scale, including caching strategies, consistency tradeoffs, and multi-region concerns.
- You've built or contributed to a Zanzibar-style authorization system, or run an OpenFGA or SpiceDB deployment beyond the demo.
- You've shipped an SDK that product teams across an org actually adopted, and have opinions about why most internal SDKs fail.
Compensation
- For roles based in the United States, t he 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.
- If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.
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.
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