Tech Lead Automation Engineer - San Jose, California, United States
$135,000 - $170,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 September 2026 by the employer — open 1 day.
About the role
This role involves leading the development of internal automation platforms to streamline access, tracking, and administrative workflows across the company.
What you'll do
- Take technical ownership of internal automation platforms, including architecture, data model, and roadmap.
- Design and ship full-stack features: backend services, role-based access control, approval workflows, and frontend UI.
- Maintain and extend integrations with external systems such as SaaS tools, cloud infrastructure, and internal directory/identity services.
- Design and build new operational systems for tracking assets, entitlements, and usage dashboards.
- Automate SG&A workflows in partnership with IT, HR, and Finance stakeholders, including onboarding/offboarding and access reviews.
- Own database schema evolution and maintain automated test coverage while setting engineering standards.
What you'll need
- BS/MS in Computer Science with 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of a production web application end-to-end, including backend (Python; FastAPI or similar), relational database design (PostgreSQL, SQL, schema migrations), and frontend work.
- Experience integrating with enterprise SaaS APIs (e.g., Atlassian suite, Microsoft 365, GitHub/Bitbucket) and cloud infrastructure APIs.
- Working knowledge of identity and access management (RBAC, SSO/OAuth2, and group provisioning via a directory service).
- Experience designing systems of record or inventory/asset-tracking tools, and dashboards.
- Fluency with AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of a daily development workflow.
Nice to have
- Exposure to licensing, entitlement, or lifecycle-tracking systems (software licenses, IP/asset lifecycle, or similar compliance-adjacent tracking).
Skills: internal automation platforms, backend services, relational database design, SaaS APIs, cloud infrastructure APIs
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 45-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
826
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Median days open
45 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | Astera Labs | All employers we track in this specialty (826 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 826 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 18 | 5650 · 142 employers |
| Median days open | 1 d | 45 d (−44 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: internal automation platforms, backend services, relational database design, SaaS APIs, cloud infrastructure APIs
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 244 open roles · median 34 d
- Qualcomm · 55 open roles · median 65 d
- Graphcore · 41 open roles · median 77 d
- AMD · 39 open roles · median 22 d
- Cerebras · 38 open roles · median 45 d
- Intel Corporation · 26 open roles · median 33 d
How we counted: 826 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.