Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure & Speed at Scale

Coinbase, Inc.; Boise (ID); 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 for test infrastructure and own end-to-end systems.

You will focus on speed, reliability, and scalability, enabling engineers to ship faster with confidence. Responsibilities include building core test infrastructure services, improving flaky-test detection and test selection, and shaping platform upgrades with a strong emphasis on SLOs and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.

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

Test infrastructure

Strategy formation

Performance feedback

SLOs

Incident response

AI usage

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to define the technical direction for test infrastructure and own end-to-end systems.

You will focus on speed, reliability, and scalability, enabling engineers to ship faster with confidence. Responsibilities include building core test infrastructure services, improving flaky-test detection and test selection, and shaping platform upgrades with a strong emphasis on SLOs and observability.