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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)).
- 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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- 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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years building and operating production software with strong distributed systems fundamentals and a primary language like Go (or similar).
- Demonstrated track record of defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems.
- Deep, hands-on experience in test infrastructure: test execution at scale, flaky-test detection, test selection, sharding, or test result analysis.
- Strong operational instincts with focus on reliability, security, and observability.
- Track record of driving complex, cross-team technical projects to completion without direct authority.
- Customer-focused mindset; measure success by impact on engineering teams.
- Ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (examples: LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) and apply human-in-the-loop practices.
- Familiarity with test selection algorithms (change-based, dependency graph, ML-assisted) and tradeoffs between coverage and speed.
- Experience operating at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and containers (Docker/OCI).
- Experience with observability and performance tooling (e.g., Datadog) for distributed test execution.
- Curiosity about crypto/web3 or experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
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Coinbase uses a market-driven, pay-for-performance approach to keep pay and bonus plans competitive. Coinbase regularly benchmarks roles against leading technology and fintech companies using external market data and reviews its compensation programs on a recurring basis to ensure salary, bonus, and equity remain aligned with the broader market and business goals. Annual bonus and equity programs are tied to both company results and individual impact, so when Coinbase and its people perform, total rewards reflect that performance.
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Crypto creates economic freedom by ensuring that people can participate fairly in the economy, and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom for more than 1 billion people. We’re updating the century-old financial system by providing a trusted platform that makes it easy for people and institutions to engage with crypto assets, including trading, staking, safekeeping, spending, and fast, free global transfers. We also provide critical infrastructure for onchain activity and support builders who share our vision that onchain is the new online. And together with the crypto community, we advocate for responsible rules to make the benefits of crypto available around the world.
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We have the opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation in the world by building an open financial system. Our vision is to create more economic freedom in the world, to help people control their own wealth, start companies, have financial privacy, and participate in the global economy. And to get us there, we focus, build and move as a team.
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