Tech Lead Platform Engineer

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Department: Product Applications

At Astera Labs, we design cutting-edge connectivity solutions that power the world’s largest cloud service providers, server, and networking OEMs. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in building and supporting the platforms that enable these products to thrive in real-world deployments through. 

You’ll create and maintain tools that make our products seamless to integrate, highly debuggable, and delightful to use for both customers and internal engineering teams. Your work will span software, systems, and silicon – developing automation, diving into labs with state-of-the-art equipment, and collaborating closely with customers to solve the toughest technical challenges. Beyond execution, you’ll influence product direction by driving innovation, providing feedback to design teams, and streamlining validation and deployment processes. 

This is a high-impact, hands-on role at the intersection of hardware and software, where curiosity, creativity, and technical depth come together to define the next generation of data center infrastructure. 

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science. 
• 5+ years of experience in software development with C, C++, C#, and/or Python. 
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a customer-first attitude and a bias toward action. 

Required Experience 

• Building and maintaining complex applications using .NET technologies (e.g., WPF, Avalonia, Blazor, MAUI). 
• Strong background in C and Python programming for tool development, automation, and system interaction. 
• Hands-on silicon/system bring-up and debug experience in customer environments. 
• Proficiency with lab equipment such as traffic generators, analyzers, and high-speed oscilloscopes. 
• Excellent technical writing skills for clear, concise documentation (datasheets, app notes, internal guides). 

Preferred Experience 

• Front-end technologies (React, Angular, Node.js). 
• Cloud development platforms (Azure, AWS). 
• Experience with high-speed I/O products (PCIe, Ethernet Switches). 
• Familiarity with data center architectures: servers, storage (JBOD/JBOG), and networking gear. 

What You’ll Gain 

• Impact: Influence the design and usability of products deployed at hyperscale. 
• Breadth: Work across hardware, firmware, and software layers. 
• Growth: Collaborate with world-class engineers and customers solving real-world challenges at scale. 
• Innovation: Freedom to prototype, improve, and bring new ideas into production. 

The base pay range for this role is between $140,000 and $175,000. Your actual base pay will depend on variables that may include your background, qualifications, and experience.