Lead Software Engineer - Consumer Engineering Test ...

Are you ready to push your limits and achieve what you think is impossible? At Coinbase, we are driven by a mission to enhance economic freedom globally. This ambitious vision challenges us to be our best every day as we construct the on-chain platform and reshape the future of the global financial system. We are on the lookout for a unique candidate who is not only passionate about our mission but also believes in the transformative potential of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in revolutionizing finance. We want someone who aspires to make a significant impact and embraces the challenge of addressing complex problems head-on, while actively seeking feedback to grow. Our work culture is dynamic and demanding, designed for those who want to create groundbreaking solutions alongside outstanding peers who uphold high standards. If you are eager to help forge the future, this is your opportunity. While many positions at Coinbase allow for remote work, we emphasize in-person collaboration throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are scheduled multiple times a year to strengthen teamwork and alignment, and attendance is both expected and supported. The Consumer Eng Test Infrastructure (CETI) team is dedicated to enhancing product quality at Coinbase by providing engineering teams with top-tier testing tools and frameworks. Our mission is to streamline the process of creating, executing, and maintaining high-quality tests, enabling teams to identify issues early, deliver confidently, and reduce development friction. As a Software Engineer on the CETI team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and developing our scalable testing infrastructure, frameworks, and tools that integrate with our CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate closely with engineers across the organization, address pain points, advocate for best practices, and help shape the future of testing at Coinbase. What You'll Be Doing: Infrastructure & Tool Development: Create and maintain high-performing and scalable automated test frameworks, tools, and infrastructure. Quality Enablement: Collaborate with engineering teams to improve test coverage, decrease flakiness, and refine the debugging process. CI/CD Optimization: Enhance CI/CD pipelines to guarantee efficient and rapid test execution. Best Practices & Culture: Promote the adoption of testing best practices across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, while fostering a high-quality testing culture that maintains development velocity. Observability: Develop comprehensive dashboards and offer insights that enable teams to monitor and enhance test quality. Test Environment Stability: Work with platform, infrastructure, CX, consumer, and SRE teams to ensure test environments are stable, scalable, and accurately represent production conditions. Technology Exploration: Investigate and assess new testing technologies (web, mobile, AI/ML, backend) and integrate them into our ecosystem as needed. What We're Looking For: Technical Foundation: A solid software engineering background, with expertise in languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, or similar. Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiarity with infrastructure technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform) and experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Developer Experience Focus: Background in building scalable developer tools and a passion for enhancing developer productivity and experience. Reliability & Performance: Knowledge of observability, debugging, and profiling techniques that boost software reliability and performance. Collaboration & Influence: Ability to work collaboratively with various teams across the organization and positively influence engineering culture. Job #: P72920 Responses to cryptocurrency-related questions may be considered for evaluating your on-chain experience. Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position ranges from $186,065 to $218,900 USD. Full-time offers from Coinbase also include eligibility for bonuses, equity, and comprehensive benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)). Please note that each candidate can submit a maximum of four applications within a 30-day timeframe. We encourage you to carefully assess how your skills and interests match with Coinbase's opportunities before applying. Commitment to Equal Opportunity: Coinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by law. Coinbase will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws. Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you require an accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment process, please contact us to inform us of the nature of your request.

Created: 2026-03-04