Staff Platform Engineer - Test Infrastructure & Speed

Coinbase; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to shape the technical direction of test infrastructure across engineering and shipping faster value to customers.

You will own systems end to end, drive faster test feedback, implement SLOs and observability, and mentor engineers while applying responsible AI to improve workflow efficiency and quality.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software, with distributed systems fundamentals and proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Track record of 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 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, 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

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

SLOs

Incident response

Generative AI

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to shape the technical direction of test infrastructure across engineering and shipping faster value to customers.

You will own systems end to end, drive faster test feedback, implement SLOs and observability, and mentor engineers while applying responsible AI to improve workflow efficiency and quality.