Staff Engineer, Test Infra — Speed & Reliability

Coinbase, Inc.; Pierre (SD); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to set the technical direction for test infrastructure, delivering faster feedback and reliable signals across engineering workloads. You will own core services—from orchestration to analysis—and collaborate with teams to remove bottlenecks in testing at scale.

You will mentor engineers, raise standards, and help Coinbase ship faster while maintaining quality and governance, with hands-on leadership in

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems.
• Deep experience with test infrastructure at scale.
• Experience operating reliable systems with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and observability tools.

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 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

Test infrastructure

SLOs

Platform tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to set the technical direction for test infrastructure, delivering faster feedback and reliable signals across engineering workloads. You will own core services—from orchestration to analysis—and collaborate with teams to remove bottlenecks in testing at scale.

You will mentor engineers, raise standards, and help Coinbase ship faster while maintaining quality and governance, with hands-on leadership in