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Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.
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Coinbase's Developer Infrastructure - Test team exists for one reason: every Coinbase engineer should get fast, reliable test signals so the company can test and ship faster. As AI accelerates the pace of code generation, test infrastructure is becoming a critical path for how quickly Coinbase delivers value to customers. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you'll set the technical direction for how Coinbase tests and ships software, owning the systems that turn testing into a speed advantage instead of a bottleneck.
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.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 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.
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$218,025—$256,500 USD
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- 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. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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