Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how Coinbase tests and ships software. Your primary responsibility is to define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across Coinbase engineering, ensuring that feedback speed is a core design constraint.

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.

Requirements

• 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

• Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, containers, and observability tools like Datadog.
• Experience with test infrastructure, including test execution at scale, flaky-test detection, test selection, and system architecture.
• Experience with SLOs and incident response processes.
• Ability to measure and improve platform impact through developer adoption and workflow improvements.
• Responsibility in utilizing generative AI to enhance workflow efficiency, cost, and quality while maintaining human oversight.

Benefits

At Coinbase, we offer competitive compensation packages, including a base salary range of $218,025 USD - $256,500 USD (excluding equity and bonus), medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits, and a comprehensive employee benefits package. We also provide a remote-first, but not remote-only work environment with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Pay

Base salary varies by location (see range below).

Schedule

Remote-first, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Equal Opportunity Employer

Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

Application Limit

Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.

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AI Disclosure

Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment.