Senior Product Security Engineer

About the Position

Senior Product Security Engineer

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About the Team

The Security Team at ClickHouse is dedicated to providing essential security capabilities, covering application, cloud, and enterprise security, incident response, detection, and GRC. We are seeking an experienced, hands-on security practitioner who will drive the adoption of modern security processes and tools, focusing on supporting our engineering and product teams in enhancing the security posture of our platforms and services.

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to improve existing and build new product features with a focus on threat modeling, assurance, and secure implementation. Examples of recent work include implementing secure key management, passwordless authentication, m2m authentication, sandboxing, and compute/network/storage isolation.
• Identify security gaps and vulnerabilities in ClickHouse Cloud and OSS, triage a wide range of vulnerabilities reported via our bug bounty program, responsible disclosure, and GitHub Issues, covering web, API, and server-client assets, including low-level memory issues like heap or buffer overflows.
• Improve and develop security assurance activities, including pentests, vulnerability assessments, bug bounty programs, and fuzzing.
• Drive the implementation and usage of engineering security tools, such as static and dynamic code analysis, dependency checks, and code licensing compliance (working knowledge of Snyk, Semgrep, GitHub CodeQL).
• Nurture the engineering-security relationship, identify and implement process and technology improvements.
• Handle information security events and incidents across ClickHouse products and services.
• Develop processes, tooling, and automation to scale security processes and mitigate risks to the business.

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Requirements

• Experience supporting engineering and product implementation efforts by performing threat assessments, assurance activities, advisory, and, in some cases, implementation work across distributed systems covering web, API, client/server assets.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with one or more cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, Cilium, Crossplane.
• Experience implementing and operating engineering security tools and processes (e.g., static/dynamic code analysis, software composition analysis, SBOM, OWASP SAMM, client and network fuzzing tools).
• Significant development and automation experience, ability to work with C++ code preferred.
• Security as code mindset, with a focus on solving problems with automation and scale in mind.

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Nice to Have

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Previous contributions to open-source projects.
• Security or cloud-related certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure).

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We Offer

• 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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About the Company

As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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