Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Partner Integrations

Role Description

As the founding backend engineer, you'll set the technical defaults for this team. You'll have end-to-end ownership, but you'll also work inside the constraints of platforms you don't own: thin documentation, unfamiliar deployment topologies, and timelines governed by partner approval cycles. A lot of the challenge is engineering across trust boundaries you don't fully control. You won't be doing it alone. You'll work closely with the team's engineering manager and a small founding group that will grow around you, but you'll be the one setting the technical direction. If that sounds like your kind of challenge, let's talk.

What you'll do

• Own an integration end to end: the design, the code, and the production system that keeps running after launch.
• Own the architecture: auth and identity flows, multi-tenancy, how data moves and where it's allowed to live, performance, and what happens in production.
• Run what you build. You'll be on-call for your own work from early on, before there's a dedicated platform to lean on, which means owning the infrastructure, CI, deployment, and observability behind it.
• Work on top of external platforms you can't change, and be straight about which risks are yours to manage and which aren't.
• Partner closely with the internal teams whose services you depend on: asking clearly, agreeing on interfaces, and finding ways to keep moving instead of waiting around to be unblocked.
• Have opinions about where this should go, and to write them down. A lot of what shapes the team's direction starts as a doc.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software, with a good chunk of it on data-heavy or integration-flavored systems.
• Solid backend and systems instincts.
• Experience with modern auth protocols, service principals, and identity federation.
• Experience building on someone else's platform.
• Comfortable in ambiguity.
• Good with other engineers.
• Mainly a backend engineer, but comfortable enough in JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Use AI tools well and honestly.
• Strong writing skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with a major cloud data or analytics platform ecosystem.
• Real depth in auth and identity federation, or experience shipping through a partner marketplace or certification process.
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Working knowledge of ClickHouse, or another columnar / OLAP engine.

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.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly.
• 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 – Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
• Culture - You will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

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.