Cloud Software Engineer - Identity and Access Management

Talantir; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 125,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Flexible time off

Home office setup $500

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is hiring for a Platform Auth engineer to help build a unified identity experience. You will design and implement authentication, authorization, and auditing across services, with SAML/SCIM/OAuth2 and passwordless options. You will collaborate across teams to ensure secure access patterns and scalable, compliant systems.

The role emphasizes strong security focus, distributed system experience, and on-call readiness to support a fast-growing, remote-friendly company with global reach.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering with complex system design.
• Hands-on experience building authentication/authorization services.
• Familiarity with SAML, SCIM, OAuth2, or OIDC.
• Experience with Auth0, Okta and cloud IAM platforms.
• Ability to implement access control for web apps, APIs and databases.
• Strong distributed systems, cloud computing and scalable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage and collaborate on authentication, authorization, audit logging and monitoring.
• Provide secure, user-friendly access for customers and internal users (SAML, SCIM, MFA, passwordless).
• Define and enforce proper authorization across systems and resources.
• Capture events for analysis and surface insights to teams and customers.
• Collaborate to improve security/usability patterns and integration with third-party systems.
• Develop common patterns and platforms for secure credential management.
• Ensure compliance with security frameworks such as NIST.
• Create internal onboarding and integration documentation; handle on-call escalations.

Skills

C++

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

Auth0

Okta

Cloud IAM

AuthZ

Job description

About ClickHouse

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. 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’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

The Platform Auth team’s goal

The Platform Auth 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. We are looking for engineers to join our growing team!

What you will be doing:

• Develop, manage and collaborate with other engineering teams for authentication, authorization, audit logging and monitoring
• Ensure customers and internal users are provided a secure, user-friendly way to access systems, including support for SAML, SCIM, MFA and passwordless auth
• Ensure resources have the proper level of authorization that is secure, easy for users to understand and easy for engineers to develop against
• 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
• 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

What you bring along:

• 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)
• 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
• 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 for developers 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

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, the 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.

An individual’s placement within the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [e-mail].

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.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.