Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization Platform

ClickHouse; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

A USD$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking engineers for the Platform Auth team to deliver a unified access management experience across ClickHouse Cloud. You will design and build platform services for authentication, authorization, and audit, including a unified RBAC/ReBAC service, token issuance, and session handling.

You will enable protocols like SAML, SCIM, OIDC, OAuth2, and MFA, design APIs and SDKs used by other teams, and own production reliability on the critical path of customer requests.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production backend systems at scale.
• Experience designing and implementing an authentication or authorization service.
• Knowledge of SAML, SCIM, OIDC, and OAuth2 at protocol level.
• APIs and SDKs design with adoptable patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform services that power authentication, authorization, and audit across ClickHouse Cloud.
• Model permissions and access control primitives across products and ship libraries/APIs.
• Implement protocol-level support for SAML, SCIM, OIDC, OAuth2, and MFA/passwordless flows.
• Build telemetry to surface access decisions and ensure observability.
• Partner with product teams to migrate bespoke auth implementations to the shared platform.
• Carry the on-call rotation and own production reliability on critical paths.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

TypeScript

Python

Auth service design

OAuth2/OIDC

RBAC/ABAC

Distributed systems

SAML/SCIM

SDK design

Tools

Auth0

WorkOS

AWS IAM

GCP IAM

Azure IAM

Job description

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:

• Design and build the platform services that power authentication, authorization, and audit across ClickHouse Cloud. This includes a unified RBAC/ReBAC service, token issuance and session handling, and the SDKs that product teams embed to make authorization decision.

• Model permissions and access control primitives (resources, roles, relationships, policies) that work across ClickHouse, SQL Console, ClickPipes, and HyperDX. Ship the libraries and APIs that other engineers build against.

• Implement protocol-level support for SAML, SCIM, OIDC, OAuth2, and MFA/passwordless flows. Own the integrations that make enterprise SSO and provisioning work end to end.

• Build the audit and authorization‑decision telemetry pipeline so every access decision is observable, queryable, and surfaceable to customers.

• Partner with product engineering teams to migrate bespoke per‑product auth implementations onto the shared platform, and design APIs that make adoption straightforward.

• Carry the platform on‑call rotation and own production reliability for systems on the critical path of every customer request.

What you bring along:

• Minimum 4+ years building production backend systems at scale. Comfort with at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C++) and one application language (TypeScript, Python).

• Hands‑on experience designing and implementing an authentication or authorization service. Examples include building a token issuer, an OIDC or OAuth2 provider, a policy engine, a permissions model, or an FGA/ReBAC system in the style of Zanzibar, OpenFGA, SpiceDB, or Cedar.

• Working knowledge of SAML, SCIM, OIDC, and OAuth2 at the protocol level and are able to implement them.

• Experience designing APIs and SDKs that other engineers depend on, with strong opinions on what makes them adoptable.

• Experience operating distributed systems at scale, including caching strategies, consistency tradeoffs, and multi‑region concerns.

• Familiarity with identity vendors (Auth0, WorkOS, AWS/GCP/Azure IAM) as building blocks you’ve extended or integrated into a larger platform.

• Strong production debugging instincts and a high bar for systems that are easy to develop against.

Bonus:

• You’ve built or contributed to a Zanzibar‑style authorization system, or run an OpenFGA or SpiceDB deployment beyond the demo.

• You’ve designed a multi‑tenant permission model that survived real customer requirements like custom roles, hierarchies, delegation, and ABAC attributes.

• You’ve shipped an SDK that product teams across an org actually adopted, and have opinions about why most internal SDKs fail.

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.

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