Join Coinbase as a Staff Software Engineer to define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across all engineering.
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots in daily workflows.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase will focus on enhancing the test infrastructure to ensure rapid and reliable feedback for the engineering team. Key responsibilities include defining the technical strategy for test execution, optimizing processes like smart test selection and flaky-test detection, and maintaining system reliability. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with over a decade of experience in production software and a strong background in distributed systems. The role emphasizes collaboration across teams to drive improvements in testing efficiency, reflecting Coinbase's commitment to high performance.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coinbase's career page.
- Coinbase has 163 other open roles including Strategic Program Lead, Supervisor, Customer Success Team, Staff Applied Data Scientist, Pricing.
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Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coinbase expects some on-site time in Remote - USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Coinbase lists $218,025–$256,500 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coinbase is hiring for this position in Remote - USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Terraform, Datadog, AWS, GitHub Actions, Go, Kubernetes.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coinbase targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure role at Coinbase.
From the original posting
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
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)).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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