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By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI. Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity. The company’s custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements. Discover more at www.asteralabs.com.\nThe role: Tech Lead, Software Engineer\nWe're looking for a hands-on Tech Lead, Software Engineer to own and build the platforms that power how our company operates. You'll evolve existing production systems, develop new applications from the ground up, and set the technical direction for solutions spanning workflow automation, integrations, identity, and operational data. \nThis is a builder's role. You'll make architectural decisions, design data models and APIs, write code, and ship production features yourself. 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They understand that access provisioning, asset tracking, and building insights are fundamentally the same problem - manual handoffs that should be code - and they get energy from turning that insight into a working system. They use AI coding tools fluently as part of how they build, not as an occasional aid. They can sit with an IT or Finance stakeholder, map out a manual process on a whiteboard, and walk away knowing exactly what to build - and they're just as comfortable being the only engineer on the project as they are pulling in help when the roadmap demands it.\nWhy this role is interesting\nThis is a rare chance to take full technical ownership of a live, actively used platform and decide where it goes next, while also getting a clean slate to stand up entirely new systems from scratch. 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