Staff Test Infrastructure Engineer - Speed, Scale & Reliability

Coinbase, Inc.

Juneau (AK)

Hybrid

USD 218,000 - 257,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to define the technical strategy for test infrastructure, build core services, and improve test signal speed at scale. You will own end-to-end systems with observability, SLOs, and on-call operations, partnering across engineering teams to remove bottlenecks and elevate standards.

You will mentor engineers, drive improvements in reliability, and ensure responsible use of generative AI to deliver

Qualifications

  • 10+ years building and operating production software with distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
  • Track record of defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems that other teams depend on.
  • Deep experience in test infrastructure, including test execution at scale, flaky-test detection, test selection and its tradeoffs between speed and coverage, sharding, or test result analysis.
  • Proven experience operating reliable systems at scale using Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, containers, and observability tooling such as Datadog.
  • Demonstrated success measuring platform impact through developer adoption and workflow improvements, with experience building and maintaining SLOs and incident response processes.
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

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
Kubernetes
AWS
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Datadog
SLOs
Incident response
AI governance

Tools

GitHub Actions
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Infrastructure - Test team to define the technical strategy for test infrastructure, build core services, and improve test signal speed at scale. You will own end-to-end systems with observability, SLOs, and on-call operations, partnering across engineering teams to remove bottlenecks and elevate standards.

You will mentor engineers, drive improvements in reliability, and ensure responsible use of generative AI to deliver

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