Software Engineer, Services Platform
Cursor · San Francisco · New York
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build platform primitives that make resilient systems easy to ship.
- Establish durable orchestration as first-class standard for all teams.
- Create service catalogue so incidents resolve in minutes, not hours.
Ideal candidate
Truth-seeking, passionate builder who loves developer experience and production reliability. You enjoy spirited debate, shipping code, and designing simple abstractions that help hundreds of engineers build resilient systems.
Requirements
- Experience building internal developer platforms, service frameworks, or infrastructure abstractions that other engineers depend on
- Worked extensively with Temporal, durable workflow engines, or similar orchestration systems with strong opinions on best practices
- Care deeply about developer experience and design for simplicity and correctness by default
- Experience with deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or service mesh architectures
- Understand tradeoffs in microservice vs. monolith architectures and help teams navigate service decomposition pragmatically
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy shipping production systems that make the organization more productive
- hiring process
- 2-3 short technicals followed by onsite in office with small project, 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