Senior Software Engineer – Identity & Authorization Platform

ClickHouse

Senior Software Engineer building and designing services for authentication and authorization at ClickHouse Cloud. Collaborating with product engineering teams to enhance user access management.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $141,000 - $208,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonRustSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build the platform services that power authentication, authorization, and audit across ClickHouse Cloud. This includes a unified RBAC/ReBAC service, token issuance and session handling, and the SDKs that product teams embed to make authorization decisions.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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).
Hands-on experience designing and implementing an authentication or authorization service. 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.
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.
Familiarity with identity vendors (Auth0, WorkOS, AWS/GCP/Azure IAM) as building blocks you've extended or integrated into a larger platform.
Strong production debugging instincts and a high bar for systems that are easy to develop against.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoRustC++TypeScriptPythonauthentication serviceauthorization servicetoken issuanceAPI designdistributed systems

Soft Skills

production reliabilitydebugging instinctscollaborationadoptability opinions