Staff Engineer, Test Infrastructure Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Cheyenne (WY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to define the technical strategy for test infrastructure across engineering, speeding feedback and improving reliability. You will build and operate critical test services, drive improvements, own systems end to end, and mentor engineers to raise standards.

You will collaborate with multiple teams using Kubernetes, AWS, and modern CI/CD tooling to ship faster while maintaining quality and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals and Go expertise.
• Experience defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems that other teams depend on.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure, including test execution at scale, flaky-test detection, test selection and its tradeoffs between speed and coverage, sharding, or test result analysis.
• Proven experience operating reliable systems at scale using Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, containers, and observability tooling like 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, with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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

Go

Distributed systems

Test infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to define the technical strategy for test infrastructure across engineering, speeding feedback and improving reliability. You will build and operate critical test services, drive improvements, own systems end to end, and mentor engineers to raise standards.

You will collaborate with multiple teams using Kubernetes, AWS, and modern CI/CD tooling to ship faster while maintaining quality and observability.