Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

About the role

The Developer Infrastructure - Test team at Coinbase exists to ensure every Coinbase engineer receives fast, reliable test signals, enabling the company to test and ship faster. With the acceleration of AI in code generation, test infrastructure is now a critical path for Coinbase's delivery of value to customers.

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.

Qualifications

• Experience with generative AI technologies, specifically in the context of improving test infrastructure and workflows.

Skills

• Proficiency in Go or a similar language.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, containers, and observability tools such as 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 mentor and raise technical standards within the organization.

Benefits

Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Pay

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025 USD - $256,500 USD

Schedule

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