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# Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure (Test Infrastructure)

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $218,025.0 - $256,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Shard (Database Architecture), Distributed Systems, Github, Test Execution Engine, Datadog, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.bostonjobsite.com/job.asp?id=3466555830&tx=TT3734TYZ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.