Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure - Test team exists for one reason: every Coinbase engineer should get fast, reliable test signals so the company can test and ship faster. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you'll set the technical direction for how Coinbase tests and ships software, owning the systems that turn testing into a speed advantage instead of a bottleneck.

You will define and drive the strategy for test infrastructure, build core services, and mentor engineers to

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Experience defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems.
• 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

Test infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

SLOs

AI governance

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure - Test team exists for one reason: every Coinbase engineer should get fast, reliable test signals so the company can test and ship faster. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you'll set the technical direction for how Coinbase tests and ships software, owning the systems that turn testing into a speed advantage instead of a bottleneck.

You will define and drive the strategy for test infrastructure, build core services, and mentor engineers to