Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure: Scale & Speed

Coinbase, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Platform team focused on test infrastructure. You will define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering, with feedback speed as a core design constraint.

You will build and operate core test infra services, drive faster test feedback, own systems end to end including architecture, observability, SLOs and on-call, and mentor engineers to raise standards while applying responsible AI

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, including test execution at scale and defect detection.
• Experience operating reliable systems at scale using Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions and observability tooling.
• Demonstrated success 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

Distributed systems

Go language

Test infrastructure

Kubernetes

AWS

Observability

SLOs

Incident response

Tools

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Job description

Coinbase in the United States is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Platform team focused on test infrastructure. You will define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering, with feedback speed as a core design constraint.

You will build and operate core test infra services, drive faster test feedback, own systems end to end including architecture, observability, SLOs and on-call, and mentor engineers to raise standards while applying responsible AI