Software Engineer, Core Services
Cursor · San Francisco · New York
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own critical shared services like auth and webhooks at massive scale.
- Build backend infrastructure behind agent workflows for developers.
- Harden source-control integrations to keep developer tool rock-solid.
Ideal candidate
Truth-seeking, passionate and creative backend engineer who loves owning critical services end-to-end and cares deeply about clean abstractions and reliability for fellow developers.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating critical backend services, especially auth systems, API gateways, or webhook infrastructure
- Worked on agentic products or infrastructure with focus on reliability and performance of complex multi-step systems
- Care deeply about clean abstractions, well-defined service contracts, and enabling other engineers
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ownership of full lifecycle of production services
- Experience with authentication/authorization frameworks, event-driven architectures, or developer-facing platform services is a plus
- hiring process
- 2-3 short technical interviews followed by an onsite with a small project, idea discussions and team meetings.
Lab profile
About Cursor
Automates coding with AI-powered editor for professional programmers.
What they build
- Cursor AI code editor
- Cursor for Enterprise
Known for
- AI-assisted coding
- Applied ML research
- Developer tools
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco
- Backed by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz