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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure (Test Infrastructure)

Coinbase· Platform
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Remote$218k - $256.5kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role focusing on test infrastructure within Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure - Test team. Owns technical direction for test infrastructure, builds core services for test orchestration, flaky-test detection, sharding, and test result analysis, and drives improvements in test feedback speed and signal reliability while mentoring engineers.

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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Go (or similar language)Distributed systemsTest infrastructureKubernetesAWSGitHub ActionsTerraformObservability tooling (Datadog)

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans with generous employee contributions
  • Health Savings Account with company contributions
  • Disability and life insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Wellness stipend
  • Mobile/internet reimbursement
  • Volunteer time off
  • Fertility counseling and benefits
  • Generous time off/leave policy
  • Option of getting paid in digital currency
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Coinbase

Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

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