Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Altinity, Inc. is a company specializing in ClickHouse, the leading analytic database, and is seeking a ClickHouse QA Engineer / SDET with a security focus. The role involves testing features in ClickHouse, writing automated tests, and addressing security threats to deliver high-quality analytic data services.
Responsibilities
- Testing features in the ClickHouse server, client interfaces, and related services around ClickHouse
- Verifying SQL, REST, native client APIs, authentication, authorization, RBAC, OAuth integrations, FIPS compatibility, and Linux, filesystem, networking, and process-level interfaces in the stack
- Writing automated tests
- Running AI-assisted security scans
- Helping with scheduled CVE scans
- Turning validated findings into reliable regression tests
Skills
- 3+ years of hands-on testing experience in DBMS, cloud services, storage, or operating systems
- Strong working knowledge of Docker, Linux, and network security fundamentals
- Experience with or strong interest in security testing, including CVE triage, dependency scanning, Docker image scanning with tools such as Grype or Trivy, authentication, authorization, RBAC, OAuth, TLS, FIPS, secrets handling, and security-hardened systems
- Excellent knowledge of Python, C++ and bash scripting
- Excellent coding skills and ability to write clean, efficient test code
- Expert at designing enterprise-level functional tests for cloud services, client libraries, or service APIs
- Experienced in using modern CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions
- Tenacious at figuring out ways to break software and systematic in documenting bugs
- Excellent discipline to follow test processes
- Capable of working independently with minimal supervision
Benefits
- Work from Anywhere, Anytime: We are not your typical nine-to-five shop! Enjoy the flexibility of working from literally wherever and whenever. Create a schedule that works for you and your family or lifestyle.
- Open vacation policies
- Opportunities to learn new technologies as well as try out new roles
- Access to training on leading-edge technologies
- Flexible work schedules for external education
- Comprehensive PPO health care plans for our US-based employees
- 401K with company match also available
- Come together in person two to three times per year in locations across the globe
- We also fund travel to conferences
- Encourage presentations as well as contributions to open-source communities
- Equity in the company
- 100% remote. You may work anywhere you have work permits
- Flexible work hours
- Check out our many other benefits including flexible work hours, career development, and open vacation policies.
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