Automation (Python) ClickHouse QA Engineer / SDET, Security Focus

Altinity, Inc. is a company that specializes in ClickHouse, the leading analytic database, providing real-time data solutions. They are seeking a ClickHouse QA Engineer / SDET with a security focus to deliver high-quality analytic data services, conduct testing on various features, and ensure security through automated tests and scans.

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 and running AI-assisted security scans
• Helping with scheduled CVE scans and turning validated findings into reliable regression tests

Requirements:

• 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
• Security-focused testing experience or willingness to learn fast and make it a new passion
• Outstanding coding skills
• Ability to develop and run tests at every level of the stack
• Ability to communicate and work well with a remote team