Remote Staff Software Engineer, Test Infra – Speed

Coinbase, Inc.; Topeka (KS); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical direction of test infrastructure, own core services, and drive faster feedback loops for engineers building next-generation finance software.

You’ll lead end-to-end ownership, from architecture to on-call operations, partnering with multiple engineering teams to remove bottlenecks and raise the bar on reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems foundations.
• Experience defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems used by other teams.

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 programming

Test infra leadership

Platform architecture

SLOs & incident response

Kubernetes & AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Observability (Datadog)

AI governance

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Containers

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical direction of test infrastructure, own core services, and drive faster feedback loops for engineers building next-generation finance software.

You’ll lead end-to-end ownership, from architecture to on-call operations, partnering with multiple engineering teams to remove bottlenecks and raise the bar on reliability and observability.