Product Security Engineer

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · United States · Security

This role is for a Product Security Engineer at ClickHouse, a company specializing in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The engineer will collaborate with product and engineering teams to enhance security features, identify vulnerabilities, and improve security processes and tooling. Responsibilities include threat modeling, secure implementation, vulnerability triage, driving security assurance activities like pentests and fuzzing, and implementing engineering security tools such as static/dynamic code analysis. The role also involves handling security incidents and developing automation for security processes. Experience with cloud providers, Kubernetes, and security tools like Snyk and Semgrep is required, along with development experience in C++ and a security-as-code mindset.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with engineering and product on improving existing and building new product features with focus on threat modeling, assurance and secure implementation, some examples of recent work include implementation of secure key management, passwordless authentication, m2m authentication, sandboxing and compute/network/storage isolation
  2. Identify security gaps and vulnerabilities in ClickHouse Cloud and OSS, triage a wide range of vulnerabilities reported via our bug bounty program, responsible disclosure, GitHub Issues covering web, API and server - client assets including low level memory issues like heap or buffer overflows
  3. Improve and develop security assurance activities - pentests, vulnerability assessments, bug bounty programs, fuzzing
  4. Drive implementation and usage of engineering security tools - static, dynamic code analysis, dependency checks, code licensing compliance (working knowledge of Snyk, Semgrep, GitHub CodeQL)
  5. Handle information security events and incidents across ClickHouse products and services

Skills

Required

  • Experience supporting engineering and product implementation efforts by performing threat assessments, assurance activities, advisory as well as, 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
  • 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
  • Security as code mindset, with focus on solving problems with automation and scale in mind

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)

What the JD emphasized

  • low level memory issues like heap or buffer overflows
  • working knowledge of Snyk, Semgrep, GitHub CodeQL