Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure (Test Infrastructure)

As a Staff Software Engineer on Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure team, you'll own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across the company. Your mission is to make testing a speed advantage rather than a bottleneck, ensuring every engineer gets fast, reliable test signals so Coinbase can ship faster. You'll set the direction for how the company tests and ships software, working on systems that become critical as AI accelerates code generation.

What you'll do

• 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

What you bring

• 10+ years building and operating production software, with distributed systems fundamentals and proficiency in Go or a similar language
• A 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
• Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $218,025-$256,500 USD (varies by location)
• Equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person "surge" sessions

About Coinbase

Coinbase is building the infrastructure for economic freedom. The company operates at high intensity, uncompromising on its mission to increase economic freedom and deliver value to customers.