Astera Labs Inc.
Tech Lead Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- This is a builder's role, not a purely architectural one: you'll be writing code, designing schemas, and shipping features personally, using AI coding platforms like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot as core tools in your daily work.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship full-stack features: backend services, role-based access control, approval workflows, and frontend UI.
- Maintain and extend integrations with the external systems these platforms depend on - SaaS tools, cloud infrastructure, and internal directory/identity services.
- Design and build new operational systems from the ground up in response to emerging business needs, including systems of record for tracking assets and entitlements, and dashboards that give teams visibility into usage, cost, and status.
- Partner with IT, HR, and Finance-adjacent stakeholders to automate SG&A workflows - onboarding/offboarding, approval routing, audit logging, and access reviews - while those teams continue to own the underlying policy.
- Build identity and access integrations (SSO/OAuth2) and RBAC models that satisfy audit requirements without slowing teams down.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science with 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 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 - RBAC, SSO/OAuth2, and group provisioning via a directory service (LDAP or equivalent).
- Experience designing systems of record or inventory/asset-tracking tools, and the dashboards that surface their data to different audiences.
Nice to have
- Exposure to licensing, entitlement, or lifecycle-tracking systems (software licenses, IP/asset lifecycle, or similar compliance-adjacent tracking) is a strong plus.
Skills
- Labs (NASDAQ:
- ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions.
- Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.
Compensation
- Salary range is $135,000 to $170,000 depending on experience, level, and business need.
Benefits
- Own database schema evolution and maintain automated test coverage as the codebase and its scope grow.
Company info
- We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead Software Engineer with a passion for infrastructure and SG&A automation to lead the development of the internal platforms that let the rest of the company move faster.
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