Remote-First Staff Engineer, Test Infra - Speed & Quality

Coinbase, Inc.; Charleston (WV); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our Developer Infrastructure - Test team to set the technical direction for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering. You’ll prioritize feedback speed, reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability to help engineers ship faster in a fast-moving product environment.

The role combines hands-on development with platform-level leadership in a remote-first company that values performance and thoughtful AI integration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure including test execution at scale, flaky-test detection, and test result analysis.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering with feedback speed as a core constraint.
• Build and operate core test infrastructure services including test orchestration, smart test selection, sharding, flaky-test detection, and test result analysis.
• Drive improvements in test feedback speed and signal reliability so engineers can ship with confidence.
• Own systems end to end, including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
• Partner with engineering teams across Coinbase to identify bottlenecks and turn them into platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Kubernetes

AWS

Test infrastructure

SLOs & incident response

Datadog

AI in workflows

Tools

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our Developer Infrastructure - Test team to set the technical direction for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering. You’ll prioritize feedback speed, reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability to help engineers ship faster in a fast-moving product environment.

The role combines hands-on development with platform-level leadership in a remote-first company that values performance and thoughtful AI integration.