Principal Product Manager, Security & Compliance
About ClickHouse
Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 3,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.
The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.
We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!
We are seeking a high-impact Principal Product Manager to lead ClickHouse’s strategy for highly regulated sectors, specifically focusing on FedRAMP compliance and the global expansion of our Sovereign Cloud offerings. As ClickHouse Cloud scales to support the world’s largest enterprise and public-sector customers, you will be responsible for ensuring our platform meets the most stringent security, isolation, and data residency requirements.
This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, security engineering, and compliance. You will own the roadmap for achieving FedRAMP certification and define the product architecture for deployment in restricted environments like the European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
FedRAMP & Compliance Leadership
- Define and execute the multi-year roadmap to achieve FedRAMP Moderate certification and, eventually, FedRAMP High certification for ClickHouse product offerings.
- Partner with engineering and the compliance team to ensure product capabilities support SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI and other frameworks.
- Translate complex federal security requirements into actionable product specifications for Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, and audit logging, personnel access.
- Serve as the primary product nominee for FIPS compliance modules and government-specific licensing models.
Sovereign Cloud & Regional Expansion
- Lead the product strategy for the European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) and KSA regions, navigating prerequisites including legal, partnership (e.g., CNTXT), and infosec requirements.
- Define data residency and personnel control requirements (e.g., in-country staff, cleared personnel) to support organizational data sovereignty.
- Collaborate with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud on specialized deployment packages like Assured Workloads for restricted jurisdictions.
Qualifications
- Experience: 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years deeply focused on cloud security, infrastructure, or enterprise SaaS compliance.
- Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of FedRAMP (Moderate/High) requirements and the process of achieving certification for a multi-tenant cloud service.
- Technical Depth: Strong grasp of cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure), including VPC peering, private endpoints, encryption (BYOK/KMS), and multi-tenant security.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with global data sovereignty trends and regulations such as GDPR, and their impact on cloud region strategy.
- Communication: Exceptional ability to explain complex compliance and technical concepts to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
- Leadership: Proven track record of working cross-functionally across legal, security, operations, and sales to launch products in regulated markets.
Bonus Qualifications
- Prior experience securing a data platform, database product, or real-time analytics service.
- Experience commercializing open-source technologies for enterprise-grade deployments.
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.
If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at .
Perks
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 20 countries.
- 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 – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
Culture - We All Shape It
As part of a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.
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