Software Engineer, Storage
Cursor · San Francisco · New York
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own the data layer underpinning every product used by millions daily.
- Design next-gen partitioned, resilient topology built for explosive growth.
- Build query attribution and guardrails to catch bad patterns pre-production.
Ideal candidate
Truth-seeking, passionate builder who loves spirited debate and shipping code. Cares deeply about operational excellence and creating reliable foundations other engineers depend on.
Requirements
- Deep experience with relational databases at scale, especially Postgres, MySQL or similar OLTP systems
- Tackled database sharding, migration or decomposition problems in production
- Understand tradeoffs between storage engines and help teams choose for workloads
- Care about operational excellence including backups, monitoring, query performance and capacity planning
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy building systems other engineers depend on
- hiring process
- 2-3 short technicals followed by onsite with small project, idea discussion 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