Staff Software Engineer — Test Infrastructure Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering, build and operate core services, and drive improvements to speed and reliability of test signals.

You will own end-to-end systems, collaborate with multiple teams, and mentor engineers to raise the bar on platform quality. You will work in a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges, leveraging Kubernetes,

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficient in Go or a similar language.
• Experience defining 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 coverage tradeoffs.

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 language

Distributed systems

Test infrastructure

SLOs

Incident response

Generative AI

Observability

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering, build and operate core services, and drive improvements to speed and reliability of test signals.

You will own end-to-end systems, collaborate with multiple teams, and mentor engineers to raise the bar on platform quality. You will work in a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges, leveraging Kubernetes,