Staff Platform Test Infrastructure Engineer

Coinbase; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Equity eligibility

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Platform team to define the technical direction of test infrastructure and own systems end to end. You’ll enable faster shipping by improving test signals, reducing flaky tests, and driving SLOs and observability across large-scale production services.

You will mentor engineers, partner with multiple squads, and help shape Coinbase’s approach to test infrastructure while aligning with security and reliability goals.

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

Go

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Platform team to define the technical direction of test infrastructure and own systems end to end. You’ll enable faster shipping by improving test signals, reducing flaky tests, and driving SLOs and observability across large-scale production services.

You will mentor engineers, partner with multiple squads, and help shape Coinbase’s approach to test infrastructure while aligning with security and reliability goals.