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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Coinbase, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Shard (Database Architecture), Distributed Systems, Github, Test Execution Engine, Datadog, Kubernetes, Web3.js, Google Gemini, Terraform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Docker
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_b4427d4d0e9f2945ccde19d284c2433a

## About the Role

* 10+ years building and operating production software, with strong fundamentals in distributed systems and a primary language like Go (or similar).
 * Demonstrated track record of defining and delivering technical strategy for foundational systems - not just shipping features, but setting direction that other teams depend on.
 * Deep, hands-on experience in test infrastructure: test execution at scale, flaky-test detection, test selection, sharding, or test result analysis.
 * Strong operational instincts - you care about reliability, security, and observability, and your systems reflect that.
 * A track record of driving complex, cross-team technical projects to completion - influencing direction and timelines without needing direct authority over the people involved.
 * A customer-focused mindset: you measure success by the impact your systems have on the engineers who depend on them.
 * Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality., * Familiarity with test selection algorithms (change-based, dependency graph, ML-assisted) and the 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) to measure and improve system behavior - particularly for distributed test execution.
 * Curiosity about crypto/web3 (deep prior knowledge not required); experience in a regulated or security-sensitive environment is a plus.

## Description

* Define and own the technical strategy for test infrastructure across all of Coinbase engineering - with speed of feedback as the primary design constraint.
 * Build and operate core Developer Infrastructure - Test services: test execution orchestration, smart test selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection and suppression, and test result storage and analysis.
 * Relentlessly reduce the time between "code written" and "test results in hand" - every minute saved on test feedback compounds across thousands of engineers and PRs per day.
 * Drive flakiness rate down so that test signals are trustworthy by default and engineers never waste time re-running or second-guessing results.
 * Own your systems end to end - SLOs, observability, on-call - with zero tolerance for correctness issues.
 * Partner closely with engineering teams across Coinbase (your customers) to understand where test infrastructure is slowing them down and fix it.
 * Mentor engineers across Developer Infrastructure - Test and DevInfra, set technical standards that scale beyond your direct work, and shape how the org approaches test infrastructure problems.