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Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization Platform
BackendRemote — Germany, Portugal, France, United Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands
Published on 2026-06-22
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About this role
Build and operate the shared identity and authorization platform powering ClickHouse Cloud. The role covers access-control services, enterprise identity integrations, SDKs, and audit telemetry, with responsibility for production reliability.
About the company
ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar database built for real-time analytics on large volumes of data.
The team
Platform Auth team within Security.
Stack
GoRustC++TypeScriptPythonSAMLSCIMOIDC
What you'll do
- Design and build authentication, authorization, token, session, and audit services.
- Model access-control primitives and deliver APIs and SDKs for product teams.
- Implement SAML, SCIM, OIDC, OAuth2, MFA, and passwordless integrations.
- Build observable, queryable audit and authorization-decision telemetry.
- Help product teams migrate bespoke authentication systems to the shared platform.
- Join the platform on-call rotation and own production reliability.
What we're looking for
- At least 4 years building production backend systems at scale.
- Experience with a systems language such as Go, Rust, or C++, and an application language such as TypeScript or Python.
- Hands-on experience building an authentication or authorization service.
- Working protocol-level knowledge of SAML, SCIM, OIDC, and OAuth2.
- Experience designing APIs and SDKs for other engineers.
- Experience operating distributed systems, including caching, consistency, and multi-region concerns.
- Strong production debugging skills.
Nice to have
- Experience building a Zanzibar-style authorization system or operating OpenFGA or SpiceDB in production.
- Experience designing multi-tenant permission models with custom roles, hierarchies, delegation, or ABAC.
- Experience shipping an SDK adopted across an organization.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly flexible work environment.
- Employer contributions toward healthcare.
- Company stock options for new team members.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous time off in other countries.
- US$500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Company-wide gatherings and offsites.