Tech Lead Software Engineer - San Jose, California, United States
$135,000 - $170,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 September 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 20 October 2026.
About the role
Astera Labs is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead Software Engineer to lead the development and ownership of internal automation platforms that streamline access, tracking, and operational workflows across engineering and business operations.
What you'll do
- Take technical ownership of internal automation platforms end-to-end, including architecture, data models, background sync/scheduling, and roadmaps. - Design and ship full-stack features including backend services, role-based access control (RBAC), approval workflows, and frontend UI. - Maintain and extend integrations with SaaS tools, cloud infrastructure APIs, and internal directory/identity services. - Design and build operational systems of record for tracking assets and entitlements, along with dashboards surfacing usage, cost, and status. - Partner with IT, HR, and Finance-adjacent stakeholders to automate SG&A workflows such as onboarding/offboarding, approval routing, audit logging, and access reviews. - Own database schema evolution, maintain automated test coverage, and enforce engineering standards including separation of concerns, commit discipline, and logging.
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: 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 (compute/storage, job schedulers). - Working knowledge of identity and access management, including RBAC, SSO/OAuth2, and group provisioning via a directory service (LDAP or equivalent). - Experience designing systems of record or inventory/asset-tracking tools and associated 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 43 days — below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
998
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Astera Labs | All employers we track in this specialty (998 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 998 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 16 | 6296 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 43 d | 50 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
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 · 290 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 96 d
- Intel Corporation · 44 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 86 d
How we counted: 998 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 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.