Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization Platform
ClickHouse3 months ago
Base Salary
$141k - $208k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build platform services for authentication, authorization, audit, RBAC/ReBAC, token issuance, session handling, and authorization SDKs.
- Model permissions, resources, roles, relationships, and policies across ClickHouse, SQL Console, ClickPipes, and HyperDX.
- Implement SAML, SCIM, OIDC, OAuth2, MFA, and passwordless flows for enterprise SSO and provisioning.
- Build telemetry pipelines that make authorization decisions observable, queryable, and available to customers.
- Partner with product engineering teams to migrate bespoke authentication systems to the shared platform and create easy-to-adopt APIs.
- Participate in the platform on-call rotation and own production reliability for systems critical to customer requests.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience building production backend systems at scale.
- Proficiency with at least one systems language: Go, Rust, or C++, and one application language: TypeScript or Python.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing authentication or authorization services such as token issuers, OIDC or OAuth2 providers, policy engines, permissions models, or FGA/ReBAC systems.
- Working knowledge of SAML, SCIM, OIDC, and OAuth2 at the protocol level.
- Experience designing adoptable APIs and SDKs for other engineers.
- Experience operating distributed systems at scale, including caching, consistency tradeoffs, and multi-region concerns.
- Familiarity with identity vendors or services including Auth0, WorkOS, and AWS, GCP, or Azure IAM.
- Strong production debugging skills and a focus on maintainable developer-facing systems.
- Bonus experience with Zanzibar-style authorization systems, OpenFGA, SpiceDB, multi-tenant permission models, or broadly adopted internal SDKs.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly flexible work environment across more than 20 countries.
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Stock options for every new team member.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home office setup for remote employees.
- Company-wide global gatherings and offsites.
About ClickHouse
ClickHouse builds an open-source, columnar OLAP database and a managed cloud service for teams that need real-time analytics at scale. The company monetizes through ClickHouse Cloud and commercial support for enterprises running analytics, observability, and AI workloads. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it is privately held and serves as the primary commercial steward of the ClickHouse project.