Staff Software Engineer - Test Infrastructure & Speed

Coinbase, Inc.; Augusta (ME); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical direction for test infrastructure, build essential services for test orchestration, and drive faster, more reliable test signals across Coinbase engineering.

You will own end-to-end systems, elevate platform standards, and mentor engineers. You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to remove bottlenecks, improve signal reliability, and enable rapid software

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, test execution at scale, flaky-test detection and test analysis.
• Experience operating reliable systems at scale using Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering with feedback-speed as a core constraint.
• Build and operate core test infrastructure services including orchestration, sharding, flaky-test detection, and result analysis.
• Drive improvements in test feedback speed and reliability so engineers can ship with confidence.
• Own systems end to end including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
• Mentor engineers and partner with teams to turn bottlenecks into platform improvements.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Technical strategy

Testing at scale

Mentoring engineers

Observability

SLOs & incident response

AI in workflows

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical direction for test infrastructure, build essential services for test orchestration, and drive faster, more reliable test signals across Coinbase engineering.

You will own end-to-end systems, elevate platform standards, and mentor engineers. You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to remove bottlenecks, improve signal reliability, and enable rapid software