Senior DevOps Engineer, Astera Labs
$148.5-195k
Office located in San Jose, CA
Purpose-built connectivity solutions
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Purpose-built connectivity solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$148.5-195k
Office located in San Jose, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a trusted partner for distributing data in intelligent systems.
Role
Who you are
- A proactive, self-motivated approach to identifying and solving infrastructure challenges
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
- Passion for automation and continuous improvement
- 3+ years of hands-on DevOps/Infrastructure engineering experience
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex system issues
- Solid operational knowledge of AWS Cloud services, including:
- EC2 (instance management, AMIs, spot/on-demand strategies)
- FSx (Lustre/NetApp ONTAP for high-performance storage)
- VPC, Security Groups, IAM, and networking fundamentals
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar
- Experience with AI based tools like claude-code or copilot a plus
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git)
Desirable
- Experience with AWS ParallelCluster or similar HPC cluster management tools
- Background in the Semiconductor/EDA industry with understanding of:
- EDA tool workflows (simulation, synthesis, place & route, verification)
- License management and job scheduling (LSF, Slurm, SGE)
- Debug scenarios specific to silicon design environments
- Knowledge of container technologies (Docker, Singularity)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator) are a plus
- Experience with hybrid cloud architectures (on-prem + cloud)
- Familiarity with cost optimization strategies for large-scale cloud deployments
- Understanding of security best practices in regulated environments
What the job involves
- We are seeking a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Silicon Engineering Infrastructure team. In this role, you will be instrumental in building, maintaining, and optimizing cloud-based infrastructure that supports our semiconductor design and verification workflows
- You will work closely with silicon engineering teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and efficient compute environments
- Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS to support silicon engineering workloads
- Manage and optimize EC2 instances, FSx file systems, and related AWS services for high-performance computing needs
- Implement and manage AWS ParallelCluster for provisioning and scaling compute clusters and partitions
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues across cloud and on-premises environments
- Develop automation scripts and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to streamline operations
- Collaborate with EDA tool administrators and silicon engineers to optimize workflows and resource utilization
- Monitor system performance, implement alerting, and ensure high availability of critical infrastructure
- Document processes, runbooks, and best practices for team knowledge sharing
Our take
Astera Labs was founded in 2017 to help companies ease bottlenecks in computing-intensive tasks. This is a problem that has become increasingly urgent with the rapid development of AI technology, and constitutes what Astera Labs has described as an addressable market that will reach $8 billion by 2025.
Astera Labs has had a particularly quick start as the pace of digital transformation has continued to accelerate amongst companies, enabling it to grow despite the recent economic slowdown. On top of this, its fabless approach facilitates faster scaling, helping to position the company as a market-leading connectivity provider.
With this remarkable growth and significant funding at its back, the company has cultivated a strong reputation and a range of products that tightly address pressing market issues. Lately, it has focused on growing its products and operations, particularly in North America and Asia, as well as expanding into Canada and achieving an IPO in 2024.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
46% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2022
$150m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $206.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible time off in the US
- Parental leave
- Competitive medical, dental and vision plans
- 401K
- Retirement and pension plans
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Jitendra Mohan
(CEO)After graduating with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, they were Design Director at the National Semiconductor Corporation.
Casey Morrison
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously Systems Engineering Manager, Member of Group Technical Staff at Texas Instruments.
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