Cloud Software Engineer, ClickHouse
Identity and Access Management
$133.4-232k
Salary dependent on location. Plus equity
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
Job no longer available
Open-source database for real-time apps and analytics
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$133.4-232k
Salary dependent on location. Plus equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- 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, Go)
- 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 such as FGA or OPA
- 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
What the job involves
- The Identity & Access Management 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
- This is an exciting role with growth potential. The initial focus of this role is to unify tooling and processes for customer identity. The team also guides design patterns for integration credential management and IAM related to cloud
- Develop, manage, and collaborate with other engineering teams to provide guidance and support for:
- Authentication systems to ensure customers and internal users are provided a secure, user-friendly way to access systems, including support for SAML, SCIM, MFA and passwordless authentication methods
- Role-based and fine-grained access control to ensure resources have the proper level of authorization that is secure, easy for users to understand, and easy for engineers develop against
- Audit logging & monitoring to 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
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to understand authentication and authorization relevant to the product’s implementation in Cloud and work to develop common patterns and platforms to enable secure deployment and management
- 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
Our take
Database management systems have long been important to the operations of businesses. However, these systems can be painfully slow. ClickHouse solves this problem with its ultra-fast database management system, that powers real-time analytics and apps.
ClickHouse's founding team hail from companies including Yahoo!, Netflix, Salesforce and Google. This has not only lent the company an impressive amount of credibility, but has also allowed it to identify the needs and challenges of enterprises when it comes to their databases. Its system works between 100 and 1,000 times faster than traditional options, and has led to the company being trusted by the likes of eBay, Uber and Spotify.
It has seen substantial funding too, the most recent of which is cited to help advance its platform across multiple use cases. Alongside this funding, it recently announced the acquisition of LibreChat, an open-source AI chat platform, allowing ClickHouse to launch its Agentic Data Stack. This move positions the company at the forefront of agentic analytics, allowing organizations to interact with massive datasets through AI agents, and demonstrates ClickHouses's commitment to shaping the future of real-time,. intelligent data analysis.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$400m
LATE VC
May 2025
$350m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- 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
Company HQ
Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Aaron Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to ClickHouse, Aaron spent 6 years at Elastic as CRO and Strategic Advisor. He also spent 12 years at salesforce, joining as a Regional VP of Sales before working through various roles to become the Senior VP of Enterprise Sales.
Yury Izrailevsky
(Co-Founder & President)Previously, Yury spent 3 years at Google as a VP of Engineering, 8 years at Netflix as a Director of Cloud and Systems Infrastructure and VP of CLoud Computing and Platform Engineering, and 8 years at Yahoo! as a Manager of Yahoo Data Warehouse and Director of Engineering.
Alexey Milovidov
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to becoming CTO in 2021, Alexey was the Head of CLickHouse and Yandex for over 13 years.
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