Senior Security Automation Engineer

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!

The Security organization at ClickHouse is built around a single mission: build customer trust through resilient, pragmatic security. We are establishing a new, centralized Security Automation capability—a dedicated function responsible for delivering automation work across all product lines and engineering dimensions at ClickHouse, acting as a technical force multiplier for our Security, Identity, and GRC functions.

This capability exists to solve a real problem: as we scale and mature, we must move beyond manual evidence gathering, point-in-time audits, and disconnected identity workflows. We are creating a focused, empowered team that owns security and identity automation end-to-end—from architecture and design through to implementation and delivery.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Security Automation Engineer to build the underlying automation fabric that allows our Security teams to scale. You will build a Universal Provisioning Engine and custom integration layers that satisfy external auditors while keeping internal teams focused on shipping features.

You will eliminate the engineering "interruption tax," provide leadership with a real-time, data-driven view of our risk posture, and ensure continuous compliance with zero audit surprises. By solving the "Last-Mile Gap" in identity provisioning and extending compliance tools into our proprietary applications, you will ensure our most critical controls are continuously validated with programmatic precision.

What you will do:

Build the Security Telemetry and Risk Fabric

• Control Design: Translate control frameworks into layered control implementations that prevent risks from being exploited and detect possible weaknesses within control design. Shift from reactive monitoring to self-healing security, preventing compliance drift before it becomes an audit finding.
• Security Telemetry: Engineer a centralized security telemetry system that programmatically captures control evidence and health in real-time, transitioning from manual snapshots to continuous data streams for an 'always-on' view of our security posture.
• Custom Assurance Logic: Engineer specialized automation that acts as its own continuous audit function to minimize findings and provide real-time insights into our automated control performance. Extend visibility into our proprietary applications and complex internal workflows, ensuring our most critical controls are continuously validated. 
• Agentic Risk Engine: Partner with our risk management function to build a secure mechanism to generate agentic risk assessments workflows using the data and results from what is collected.

Architect Universal Identity and Access Automation

• Universal Provisioning Connectors: Architect solutions for systems that lack native IGA support (proprietary databases, custom apps, and niche SaaS) to ensure instant account creation and de-provisioning—eliminating tickets, wait-times, and providing maximum observability into the state of Clickhouse identities.
• Customer-Approved Access Workflows: Architect the complex, high-trust workflows required for support teams to access customer-specific instances, ensuring actions are customer-approved, strictly time-bound, and automatically revoked via a "Trust-by-Design" model.
• Centralized Security Visibility: Transition "hidden" access managed by disparate business units into a single, observable permissions inventory, gaining 100% visibility into permissions at the authZ level across our full suite of applications.
• Automated Secret Discovery & Inventory: Develop automation to continuously discover and inventory secrets, credentials, and API keys throughout the environment, providing aging and rotation intervals for long lived keys.
• Eliminate "Ghost Accounts": Mitigate audit risks by ensuring automated de-provisioning for local identities, API keys, and persistent permissions across all target systems.

Partner Across Security, Engineering and Product

• Work in tandem with GRC, Finance, and Security to build custom, bulletproof automation for compliance with different audit frameworks.
• Eliminate the "Productivity Anchor" by removing manual provisioning workflows that slow down projects and flood teams with low-value administrative tickets.

What you bring along:

Security & Automation Engineering Depth

• Strong hands-on background in security automation and identity engineering (IAM/IGA). 
• Strong proficiency in at least one commonly used programming language to build scalable automation. Experience with Python, JavaScript (TypeScript highly preferred), or Go is required.
• Experience building scalable and reliable automation ecosystems
• Familiarity with compliance automation, continuous control monitoring, and extending GRC tools to meet the granular requirements of a variety of compliance frameworks.
• Understanding of risks associated with change management, logical access, and data integrity.

Execution and Delivery

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex security/GRC mandates into automated workflows and self-healing technical guardrails.
• Strong instincts for eliminating operational friction and the engineering "interruption tax."
• Experience delivering continuous data streams for security posture and risk validation.

Bonus Points:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Previous experience at a cloud infrastructure, database, or developer tools company.
• Experience with AI/Agentic risk engines and non-deterministic risk assessments.

The typical starting salary for this role in the US is$125,000—$174,000 USDThe typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is$157,000—$205,000 USD

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, as listed.

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 paytransparency@clickhouse.com.

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 start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. 

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