Remote-First Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

Coinbase, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Platform team's test infrastructure, setting technical direction for how testing powers faster delivery. You will own end-to-end systems, from architecture to observability, driving speed and reliability across the engineering organization.

With 10+ years in production software and Go expertise, you will partner with multiple teams to reduce bottlenecks, implement scalable testing, and nurture high technical standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Experience defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems that other teams depend on.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure at scale, including test execution, flaky-test detection, test selection and its tradeoffs between speed and coverage.
• Proven experience operating reliable systems at scale using Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, containers, and observability tooling such as Datadog.
• Demonstrated success measuring platform impact through developer adoption and workflow improvements, with experience building and maintaining SLOs and incident response processes.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering.
• Build and operate core test infrastructure services, including test orchestration, smart test selection, sharding, flaky-test detection, and test result analysis.
• Drive measurable improvements in test feedback speed and signal reliability so engineers can ship with confidence and without reruns.
• 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, raise technical standards, and shape how the organization approaches test infrastructure.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Test infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Observability

SLOs

Incident response

Tools

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Platform team's test infrastructure, setting technical direction for how testing powers faster delivery. You will own end-to-end systems, from architecture to observability, driving speed and reliability across the engineering organization.

With 10+ years in production software and Go expertise, you will partner with multiple teams to reduce bottlenecks, implement scalable testing, and nurture high technical standards.