Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes. Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud. It is available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.
The Identity & Access Management 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. This is an exciting role with growth potential. The initial focus of this role is to unify tooling and processes for customer identity. The team also guides design patterns for integration credential management and IAM related to cloud components.
What you will do:
- Develop, manage, and collaborate with other engineering teams to provide guidance and support for:
- Authentication systems to ensure customers and internal users are provided a secure, user-friendly way to access systems, including support for SAML, SCIM, MFA and passwordless authentication methods
- Role-based and fine-grained access control to ensure resources have the proper level of authorization that is secure, easy for users to understand, and easy for engineers develop against
- Audit logging & monitoring to 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
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to understand authentication and authorization relevant to the product’s implementation in Cloud and work to develop common patterns and platforms to enable secure deployment and management
- 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, Go)
- 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 such as FGA or OPA
- 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 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
For roles based in the United States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location.
The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.
If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [email protected].
Perks- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 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 our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
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What We Do
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time. Its technology works 100-1000x faster than traditional database management systems, and processes hundreds of millions to over a billion rows and tens of gigabytes of data per server per second. With a widespread user base around the globe, the technology has received praise for its reliability, ease of use, and fault tolerance. Learn more at clickhouse.com.
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