Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Partner Integrations

ClickHouse; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; 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 a senior backend engineer to own the architecture of authentication, identity flows, and multi-tenancy across distributed data workloads. You will ensure secure data movement, performance, and production readiness while owning CI/CD, deployment, and observability. This role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams and vendors.

You’ll thrive in ambiguity and contribute to a fast-growing, remote-friendly organization with global impact and equity opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software, with data-heavy or integration focused systems
• Strong backend and systems instincts, including deployment topology and data movement
• Experience with modern auth protocols and trust boundary issues
• Experience shipping on platforms with incomplete docs or breaking changes
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and making strategic decisions
• Strong collaboration with other engineers and cross-team communication

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of auth and identity flows, multi-tenancy, data movement, and production reliability
• Run and own CI, deployment, and observability for your component
• Work with external platforms you can’t modify and manage associated risks
• Collaborate with internal teams to define interfaces and unblock progress

Skills

Backend engineering

Auth & identity

Multi-tenancy

JavaScript/TypeScript

System architecture

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

OAuth 2.0

Identity federation

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!

About the Team

Most providers make customers migrate their data to them. We’re doing the opposite: bringing ClickHouse Cloud into the environments our customers already trust, so their data stays useful right where it lives. Those environments come in a few shapes. Some are major cloud data platforms that run ClickHouse as a native service, so customers get it without leaving the tool they already use. Some are BI and visualization tools that need ClickHouse to show up as a fast, first‑class data source behind their dashboards. And some are developer and data platforms we connect through marketplaces and identity federation with a couple of clicks to link an account. The goal is the same every time: ClickHouse should feel like a first‑class citizen in every environment.

What you’ll do

Day to day, that looks like:

• Owning the architecture: auth and identity flows, multi‑tenancy, how data moves and where it’s allowed to live, performance, and what happens in production.
• Running what you build. You’ll be on‑call for your own work from early on, before there’s a dedicated platform to lean on, which means owning the infrastructure, CI, deployment, and observability behind it.
• Working on top of external platforms you can’t change, and being straight about which risks are yours to manage and which aren’t.
• Partnering closely with the internal teams whose services you depend on: asking clearly, agreeing on interfaces, and finding ways to keep moving instead of waiting around to be unblocked.

About You

• 5+ years building software, with a good chunk of it on data‑heavy or integration‑flavored systems.
• Solid backend and systems instincts. You can reason about deployment topology, multi‑tenancy, and data movement, and you’re comfortable owning architectural tradeoffs you’ll have to live with later.
• You’ve worked with modern auth protocols, service principals, and identity federation, and you know how to get it right across a trust boundary.
• You’ve built on someone else’s platform and know what that’s actually like: incomplete docs, unintended breaking changes, etc.
• You’re comfortable in ambiguity. You can ship before the spec is finished, make sensible calls under uncertainty, and flag the decisions that will be hard to undo instead of quietly baking them in.
• You’re good with other engineers. Much of the work runs through teams you don’t own, and you earn their trust by how you think, not just what you commit.
• You’re mainly a backend engineer, but you’re comfortable enough in JavaScript / TypeScript to jump in when it helps.
• You use AI tools well and honestly. Reach for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or whatever helps, and be clear about where you did and didn’t.
• You write well. Most of how we coordinate happens in design docs, PRs, and RFCs.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with a major cloud data or analytics platform ecosystem.
• Real depth in auth and identity federation, or experience shipping through a partner marketplace or certification process.
• Experience designing multi‑tenant SaaS platforms, or the isolation and deployment topology behind them.
• Working knowledge of ClickHouse, or another columnar / OLAP engine.

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. 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 startup, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here.

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

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