Senior Product Security Engineer

ClickHouse; Madrid; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare contributions

Equity in the company

Generous time off

Remote-friendly

Company-wide offsites

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking an experienced security practitioner to partner with engineering and product teams, driving modern security practices across platforms and services. You will own threat modeling, secure implementation and automated tooling, with a focus on scalable security across distributed systems.

Responsibilities include triaging vulnerabilities, expanding security assurance activities, and enabling engineering teams with tooling such as Snyk, Semgrep and CodeQL to raise the security

Qualifications

• Threat assessments, assurance activities and advisory work across distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes and Cilium.
• Development and automation experience, able to work with C++ code.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering to improve features with threat modeling and secure implementation.
• Identify security gaps in ClickHouse Cloud and OSS; triage vulnerabilities from bug bounty and reports.
• Improve security assurance activities: pentests, vulnerability assessments, fuzzing.
• Drive security tooling adoption: static/dynamic analysis, SBOM, CodeQL, dependency checks.
• Maintain security relationships with engineering and scale security processes.

Skills

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Kubernetes

Cilium

Code analysis

SBOM / software composition

Automation

C++ development

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Security certifications (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Tools

Snyk

Semgrep

GitHub CodeQL

Fuzzing tools

OWASP SAMM

Code licensing compliance

Job description

About The Team

The Security Team is responsible for providing key security capabilities covering application, cloud and enterprise security, incident response, detection and GRC. Our team is looking for an experienced, hands‑on security practitioner, who will drive the adoption of modern security processes and tooling, with focus on supporting our engineering and product teams in improving the security posture of our platforms and services.

About The Team

The Security Team is responsible for providing key security capabilities covering application, cloud and enterprise security, incident response, detection and GRC. Our team is looking for an experienced, hands‑on security practitioner, who will drive the adoption of modern security processes and tooling, with focus on supporting our engineering and product teams in improving the security posture of our platforms and services.

Note:

This position can be fully remote anywhere in the Netherlands.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with engineering and product on improving existing and building new product features with focus on threat modeling, assurance and secure implementation, some examples of recent work include implementation of secure key management, passwordless authentication, m2m authentication, sandboxing and compute/network/storage isolation
• Identify security gaps and vulnerabilities in ClickHouse Cloud and OSS, triage a wide range of vulnerabilities reported via our bug bounty program, responsible disclosure, GitHub Issues covering web, API and server - client assets including low level memory issues like heap or buffer overflows
• Improve and develop security assurance activities - pentests, vulnerability assessments, bug bounty programs, fuzzing
• Drive implementation and usage of engineering security tools - static, dynamic code analysis, dependency checks, code licensing compliance (working knowledge of Snyk, Semgrep, GitHub CodeQL)
• Nurture the engineering - security relationship, identify and implement process and technology improvements
• Handle information security events and incidents across ClickHouse products and services
• Develop processes, tooling and automation to scale security processes and mitigate risks to the business

What You Bring Along

• Experience supporting engineering and product implementation efforts by performing threat assessments, assurance activities, advisory as well as, in some cases, implementation work across distributed systems covering web, API, client/server assets
• Strong knowledge of and experience with one or more cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, Cilium
• Experience implementing and operating engineering security tools and processes (e.g. static / dynamic code analysis, software composition analysis, SBOM, OWASP SAMM, client and network fuzzing tools)
• Significant development and automation experience, ability to work with C++ code
• Security as code mindset, with focus on solving problems with automation and scale in mind

Bonus Points

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Previous contributions to open source projects
• Security or cloud related certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new eligible team member who joins our company receives equity.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A USD$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 a rapidly scaling start‑up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

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