Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure (Platform)

Coinbase, Inc.; Montgomery (AL); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical strategy for test infrastructure, build and run services for test orchestration, and drive faster feedback loops for engineers.

You will own system architecture, observability, and on-call operations, while mentoring engineers and raising standards across the organization. Join a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Defined and delivered technical strategy for foundational systems that other teams depend on.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure, including test execution at scale, flaky-test detection, sharding, and result analysis.
• Experience operating reliable systems at scale using Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, containers, and observability tools.
• Experience measuring platform impact through developer adoption and workflow improvements.

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 or similar language

Distributed systems

Test infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

SLOs & incident response

Generative AI governance

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical strategy for test infrastructure, build and run services for test orchestration, and drive faster feedback loops for engineers.

You will own system architecture, observability, and on-call operations, while mentoring engineers and raising standards across the organization. Join a remote-first company with quarterly in-person surges.