Staff Software Engineer, Test Infra — Remote-First Impact

Coinbase; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team to define the technical direction for test infrastructure, build core services, and push the pace of shipping. You will own end-to-end systems, from architecture to on-call operations, and collaborate with engineers to remove bottlenecks and improve signal reliability.

The role demands 10+ years of production software experience, Go or similar language, and hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Experience defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure, scale, and observability tooling.

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

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Observability (Datadog)

SLOs

Incident response

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team to define the technical direction for test infrastructure, build core services, and push the pace of shipping. You will own end-to-end systems, from architecture to on-call operations, and collaborate with engineers to remove bottlenecks and improve signal reliability.

The role demands 10+ years of production software experience, Go or similar language, and hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and