Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure & Platform

Coinbase, Inc.; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

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Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to shape the technical direction of test infrastructure. You’ll own core testing systems, from orchestration to observability, and drive speed and reliability across engineering workflows.

With 10+ years in production software and deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and test infrastructure, you’ll mentor engineers, partner with teams, and push for platform improvements that accelerate shipping while

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience defining technical strategy for foundational systems used by multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in test infrastructure, including scale, flaky-test detection, and result analysis.
• Proficient in Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform and observability tooling (Datadog).
• Proven track record delivering high-quality platform improvements and SLOs.

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

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to shape the technical direction of test infrastructure. You’ll own core testing systems, from orchestration to observability, and drive speed and reliability across engineering workflows.

With 10+ years in production software and deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and test infrastructure, you’ll mentor engineers, partner with teams, and push for platform improvements that accelerate shipping while