Offensive Security Engineer

ClickHouse; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

Home office setup stipend

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking an experienced Security Practitioner to lead offensive security efforts across our web, API and cloud offerings. You will drive adoption of modern security processes, run red team exercises, and shape detection, response and risk mitigation for a multi-tenant data platform.

Join a remote-friendly team delivering security capabilities across engineering and product teams, with emphasis on adversary simulations, AI/LLM security, and scalable tooling.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in pentesting, red teaming and product security.
• Experience supporting engineering through threat assessments and advisory work across distributed systems.
• Hands-on offensive security engagements across cloud, network and application environments.
• Design adversary scenarios grounded in real threat intel tailored to a multi-tenant cloud platform.
• Strong written and verbal communication translating attack chains into actionable findings.
• Experience building agentic/LLM-assisted tooling for security use cases.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM vulnerability testing methodologies.
• Knowledge of AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing security tools (SCA, SBOM, code analysis) and automation.

Responsibilities

• Identify security gaps and triage vulnerabilities across ClickHouse offerings.
• Lead pentests, vulnerability assessments, bug bounty, and fuzzing programs.
• Plan red team exercises against ClickHouse infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Assess AI/LLM attack surfaces and tooling, including prompt injection risks.
• Develop agentic tooling and apply LLM-assisted fuzzing to accelerate discovery.
• Collaborate with detection engineering to validate coverage and response timing.
• Handle security events and incidents for ClickHouse products and services.
• Build scalable security processes and automation to mitigate business risks.

Skills

Pentesting

Red teaming

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Adversary simulation

Communication

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS/PhD in CS

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

OWASP SAMM

SBOM

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.

What you will do:

• Identify security gaps and vulnerabilities in all ClickHouse offerings 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
• Plan and execute internal red team assessments and penetration tests against ClickHouse infrastructure, cloud environments, designing realistic adversary scenarios to test detection, response and control effectiveness
• Assess AI/LLM-specific attack surface across ClickHouse's own AI-powered features and internal AI tooling, including prompt injection, model/data exfiltration, and unsafe agentic tool-use patterns
• Build and operate agentic tooling for reconnaissance, exploit-chaining and attack-path discovery, and apply LLM-assisted fuzzing to accelerate vulnerability discovery across ClickHouse's products and infrastructure
• Partner with detection engineering to validate and improve detection coverage during red team exercises, measuring and reporting on control effectiveness and time to detect/respond
• 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:

• 7+ years of experience in pentesting, red teaming and product security
• 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
• Hands-on experience conducting offensive security engagements - internal red teaming, penetration testing and adversary simulation - across cloud, network and application environments
• Ability to design adversary scenarios grounded in real threat intelligence (e.g. ransomware operators, supply chain attackers, insider threat) tailored to ClickHouse's risk profile as a multi-tenant cloud data platform
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate attack chains into clear, actionable findings for engineering and leadership
• Experience building or adapting agentic and LLM-assisted tooling for offensive security use cases (recon automation, exploit chaining, fuzzing harnesses), with judgment on where AI genuinely speeds up an engagement versus adds noise
• Familiarity with AI/LLM-specific vulnerability classes and testing methodology
• 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)
• 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)
• Previous experience in using AI security harnesses for pentesting purposes
• Experience building or operating internal red team tooling and infrastructure from scratch, rather than relying solely on off-the-shelf frameworks
• Offensive security certifications (e.g. OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, OSWE)

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.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here https://clickhouse.com/company/careers. Check out our blog posts https://clickhouse.com/blog or follow us on LinkedIn ...