Staff Software Engineer - Remote, Test Infra Platform

Coinbase; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure - Test team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for test infrastructure and own systems that turn testing into a speed advantage. You’ll define strategy across engineering, build core services, and drive improvements in test feedback speed and reliability.

Join a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges. You’ll mentor engineers, shape platform improvements, and ensure robust observability and SLO-driven operations

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.

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

SLOs & incident response

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase’s Developer Infrastructure - Test team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for test infrastructure and own systems that turn testing into a speed advantage. You’ll define strategy across engineering, build core services, and drive improvements in test feedback speed and reliability.

Join a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges. You’ll mentor engineers, shape platform improvements, and ensure robust observability and SLO-driven operations