Staff Software Engineer, Test Platform - Remote

Coinbase; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Equity

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical direction for test infrastructure, build services for test orchestration, sharding, and flaky-test detection, and drive faster, reliable feedback signals for engineers.

You will own architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call processes while mentoring teams and partnering across Coinbase to remove bottlenecks and raise technical standards.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Go or a similar language and building foundational systems.
• Deep experience in test infrastructure, scale, and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering.
• Build and operate core test infrastructure services (orchestration, sharding, flaky-test detection).
• Drive improvements in test feedback speed and signal reliability.
• Own end-to-end systems including architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call operations.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and drive platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards for test infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go programming

Technical strategy

Test infrastructure

SLOs & incidents

Observability

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AI responsibly

Incident response

Tools

Datadog

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Containers

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team. You will define the technical direction for test infrastructure, build services for test orchestration, sharding, and flaky-test detection, and drive faster, reliable feedback signals for engineers.

You will own architecture, observability, SLOs, and on-call processes while mentoring teams and partnering across Coinbase to remove bottlenecks and raise technical standards.