Security Specialist - EMEA (location flexible)

ClickHouse, Inc.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

USD$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse, Inc. is seeking a Security Specialist to own security conversations for EMEA deals, pairing deep data architecture with security expertise to engage CISOs and security architects on deployments, data residency, and compliance.

You’ll serve as a specialist overlay within the EMEA Solutions Architecture team, shaping security patterns, running threat modelling, and driving audits and responses across the sales cycle.

Qualifications

• Extensive customer-facing technical experience in data platform or analytics companies.
• Deep cloud and data security expertise including IAM, KMS, encryption.
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS.
• Credibility with security buyers and ability to articulate controls.

Responsibilities

• Act as security overlay on EMEA opportunities, supporting conversations on security, privacy or compliance.
• Lead security conversations with CISOs, security architects, and GRC teams.
• Design and validate secure ClickHouse Cloud and BYOC deployment patterns (network isolation, private connectivity, encryption, CKM, identity federation, access control).
• Run threat modelling and architecture reviews with customer security teams and own security workstreams through POC and production readiness.
• Be the field's authority on compliance posture (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS) and EU data residency.
• Raise the quality and speed of security questionnaires, RFP sections, DPIAs, and third-party risk reviews, building reusable answers.
• Build the security playbook for EMEA Solutions Architecture and enable SEs and AEs.

Skills

Data security

Cloud security

Customer-facing

Job description

As ClickHouse moves further into financial services, healthcare, telco, and the public sector across EMEA, more of our deals now turn on a specific set of questions: where the data lives, who can reach it, how it's encrypted, and what the auditor needs to see. We're looking for a Security Specialist to own those conversations, a specialist overlay within our EMEA Solutions Architecture team, brought in when security, data residency, or regulatory compliance conversations come up on a deal.

Our ideal candidate comes from inside the data industry - and pairs deep security expertise with real data architecture depth. You'll be the credible technical voice in front of CISOs and security architects, and the internal authority our field relies on for answers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Act as the security overlay on EMEA opportunities supporting conversations related to security, privacy, or compliance, engaging customers and prospects alongside the account Solutions Architect and Account Executive, discussing our various deployment models, BYOC architectures and all related security questions.

• Lead security conversations with CISOs, security architects, and GRC teams, translating ClickHouse architecture into the controls frameworks they recognize.

• Design and validate secure ClickHouse Cloud and BYOC deployment patterns network isolation, private connectivity, encryption, customer-managed keys, identity federation, and granular access control.

• Run threat modelling and architecture reviews with customer security teams, and own the security workstream through POC and production readiness.

• Be the field's authority on our compliance posture - SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and EU data residency, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and the European regulatory picture including DORA and NIS2.

• Raise the quality and speed of security questionnaires, RFP security sections, DPIAs, and third-party risk reviews, building the reusable answer library as you go.

• Build the security playbook for EMEA Solutions Architecture and enable SAs and AEs so routine security questions stay with the account team.

What You Bring

• Significant customer-facing technical experience at a data platform, analytics, streaming, or database company - you understand data architecture, not just security controls.

• Demonstrable depth in cloud and data security: IAM, key management and cryptography, network isolation, secure multi-tenancy, threat modelling, and audit.

• Working command of the frameworks that gate enterprise data deals - SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS - and comfort with EU regulation.

• Credibility with security buyers. You've held your own in front of a CISO and know the difference between answering the question and getting through the meeting.

• Overlay instincts and clear writing - comfortable working through others, prioritizing across a region, and producing artefacts that survive an auditor's reading.

Bonus Points For

• Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or CISM.

• Hands-on security architecture experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

• Experience in regulated industries - financial services, healthcare, telco, or the public sector.

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 team member who joins our company receives stock options.

• 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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