Tech Lead Automation Engineer
About The Position
Astera Labs is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead Automation Engineer to lead development of internal platforms that automate access, tracking, and administrative workflows across engineering and business teams. The role owns the platforms end to end, including architecture, data models, background synchronization and scheduling, and roadmap direction, while personally building and shipping a meaningful share of the software. The engineer will extend existing tools and build new operational systems, such as systems of record for assets and entitlements and dashboards for usage, cost, and status. The role partners with IT, HR, and Finance-adjacent stakeholders to automate workflows while leaving policy ownership with those teams. It also establishes engineering standards, maintains test coverage, and uses AI coding platforms as daily development tools.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science and 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a production web application, including backend development in Python (FastAPI or similar), relational database design using PostgreSQL and SQL, schema migrations, and frontend work.
- Experience integrating enterprise SaaS APIs, such as Atlassian, Microsoft 365, GitHub, or Bitbucket, and cloud infrastructure APIs for compute, storage, or job scheduling.
- Working knowledge of identity and access management, including RBAC, SSO/OAuth2, and group provisioning through LDAP or an equivalent directory service.
- Experience designing systems of record or inventory and asset-tracking tools, and dashboards that surface data to different audiences.
- Fluency with AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as part of a daily development workflow.
- Bias toward automating manual, cross-functional processes and comfort scoping workflows directly with non-technical stakeholders.
- Track record as a hands-on technical lead who owns architecture decisions and personally builds a meaningful share of the system.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to licensing, entitlement, or lifecycle-tracking systems, such as software licenses, IP or asset lifecycle, or similar compliance-adjacent tracking.
Responsibilities
- Own internal automation platforms end to end, including architecture, data models, background synchronization and scheduling, and roadmap.
- Design and ship full-stack features, including backend services, role-based access control, approval workflows, and frontend UI.
- Maintain and extend integrations with SaaS tools, cloud infrastructure, and internal directory and identity services.
- Design and build operational systems from the ground up, including systems of record for assets and entitlements and dashboards for usage, cost, and status.
- Expand existing tools into more complete self-service products.
- Partner with IT, HR, and Finance-adjacent stakeholders to automate onboarding and offboarding, approval routing, audit logging, and access reviews.
- Build identity and access integrations, including SSO/OAuth2 and RBAC models that meet audit requirements.
- Own database schema evolution and maintain automated test coverage as the codebase grows.
- Use AI coding platforms for scaffolding, testing, and faster delivery.
- Set and enforce engineering standards, including separation of concerns, commit discipline, and logging.
Benefits
- May be eligible for a discretionary bonus.
- May be eligible for incentives and benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
