Remote-First Staff Software Engineer - Test Infrastructure

Coinbase; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a remote-first approach and periodic in-person surges. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will own the test infrastructure, directing architecture, observability, SLOs, and operational readiness across engineering teams to accelerate delivery and quality.

You will shape the technical direction for core testing services, drive improvements in test feedback speed, and mentor engineers to raise the bar for reliability and

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Experience defining technical strategy for foundational systems that other teams depend on.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure, including test execution at scale, flaky-test detection, and test result analysis.
• Proven experience operating reliable systems at scale using Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, containers, and observability tooling such as Datadog.
• Experience measuring platform impact through developer adoption and workflow improvements.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering, with feedback speed as a core design constraint.
• 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

Distributed systems

Go language

Test infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

Observability

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Terraform

AI governance

Tools

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Coinbase is building the future of finance with a remote-first approach and periodic in-person surges. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will own the test infrastructure, directing architecture, observability, SLOs, and operational readiness across engineering teams to accelerate delivery and quality.

You will shape the technical direction for core testing services, drive improvements in test feedback speed, and mentor engineers to raise the bar for reliability and