Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to define the technical direction of test infrastructure and ensure fast, reliable signals for engineering teams.

You will own core services for test orchestration, selection, sharding, and analysis, driving improvements in speed and coverage while maintaining strong observability and SLOs. This role emphasizes leadership and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software.
• Experience defining technical strategy for foundational systems.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure at scale and observability.

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

Observability

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

System architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to define the technical direction of test infrastructure and ensure fast, reliable signals for engineering teams.

You will own core services for test orchestration, selection, sharding, and analysis, driving improvements in speed and coverage while maintaining strong observability and SLOs. This role emphasizes leadership and cross-team collaboration.