Sr. Frontend Software Engineer - RBAC & Authorization

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 [at] clickhouse [dot] com.

About the Team The Access Control team owns authorization across ClickHouse Cloud. We design and enforce the roles and permissions model, organization hierarchies, API key management, and security boundaries that every product surface and tenant depends on. Having recently shipped custom roles and fine-grained access, we are now evolving our architecture to support our largest enterprise customer structures.

What You Will Do

• Architect and build the next generation of our authorization model: multi-level organization hierarchies, workspace isolation, and resource-scoped roles.
• Implement and enforce consistent authorization checks across all public and internal APIs.
• Build tooling and migration pipelines to evolve live authorization models without downtime or customer disruption.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Customer Identity teams to deliver seamless permission management UIs.

• Experience: 6+ years building security platforms, access control engines, or core backend services at scale.
• Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of RBAC/ABAC policy models, fine-grained permission enforcement, multi-tenancy isolation, API keys, and SAML/SSO.
• Core Stack: Excellent TypeScript/Node.js fundamentals and strong schema design skills in PostgreSQL or relational stores.
• Migration Discipline: Proven track record of executing live customer data migrations and building high-correctness systems where failure is not an option.

Ideal Backgrounds: Enterprise identity platforms, IAM security tools, zero-trust cloud infrastructure, or core authorization teams at major B2B SaaS companies.

• $142K - $250K

For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed on the job posting. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, 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., * 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.

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.