Senior Manufacturing Data & Test Infra Engineer

Linuxconfig; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Astera Labs in San Jose, California, is seeking a hands-on Sr. Software Engineer to own and improve the internal platforms behind manufacturing data, hardware test infrastructure, test automation, and failure analysis.

You will support systems that collect and organize test data from labs and partners, maintain automation, and extend tools for new products and sites. You will contribute to reliable monitoring, dashboards, and scalable tooling, collaborating with hardware, firmware, IT, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years building and operating backend systems, data systems, developer infrastructure, or internal platforms.
• Strong Python skills, including production services, scripts, libraries, or automation tools.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and structured data pipelines.
• Practical understanding of changing data formats, data quality challenges, and production data collection.
• Experience with relational, analytical, or streaming data systems.
• Experience supporting CI/CD systems, Git-based workflows, Linux environments, and containerized or cloud-based services.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, and the ability to balance operations with longer-term engineering improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build, own, and improve data pipelines that collect, standardize, and organize manufacturing and test data.
• Integrate data from multiple internal and external sources, including lab test systems and manufacturing partners.
• Improve data quality, pipeline reliability, handling of changing formats, and visibility into pipeline health.
• Add support for new products, data sources, and manufacturing partners with minimal manual effort.
• Make the tools engineers use to access and analyze data faster and easier to use.
• Maintain and improve automation systems that support hardware validation and production testing.
• Keep build, test, and release workflows manageable, repeatable, and version controlled.
• Operate and improve automated tools that process results, classify failures, and route issues to the right teams.
• Reduce repetitive debugging through better classification, dashboards, and internal tooling.
• Operate services on Linux-based infrastructure using containers and cloud-hosted systems.
• Support core platform services such as storage, scheduled jobs, and deployment automation.
• Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards so issues are detected early.
• Strengthen day-to-day operations with runbooks, alert tuning, and safer rollout practices.
• Support and extend shared telemetry and logging systems.
• Build practical tools that help engineers explore logs, look up records, and diagnose failures faster.
• Help build automated or AI-assisted debugging tools where they provide clear value.
• Act as a technical point of contact for issues involving manufacturing data and test platforms.
• Work closely with hardware, firmware, test, IT, and external partners to resolve system and data issues.

Skills

Python programming

Data pipelines

Backend systems

CI/CD

Linux environments

Monitoring & observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field

Job description

Astera Labs in San Jose, California, is seeking a hands-on Sr. Software Engineer to own and improve the internal platforms behind manufacturing data, hardware test infrastructure, test automation, and failure analysis.

You will support systems that collect and organize test data from labs and partners, maintain automation, and extend tools for new products and sites. You will contribute to reliable monitoring, dashboards, and scalable tooling, collaborating with hardware, firmware, IT, and