Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure (Remote-First)

Coinbase, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to shape the technical direction of test infrastructure, from architecture to on-call operations.

You will own end-to-end systems, partner with engineering teams, implement test orchestration, sharding, flaky test detection, and signal reliability to help engineers ship with confidence. Remote-first with quarterly in-person surges.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proven track record defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure and end-to-end systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Datadog.
• Ability to measure platform impact via adoption and reliability metrics.

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

Distributed systems

Go programming

Production software

Test infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

SLOs & incident response

AI governance

Tools

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, from architecture to on-call operations.

You will own end-to-end systems, partner with engineering teams, implement test orchestration, sharding, flaky test detection, and signal reliability to help engineers ship with confidence. Remote-first with quarterly in-person surges.