Software Engineer, Storage

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Designing the next-generation data architecture: evolving the storage layer into a partitioned, resilient topology that keeps pace with Cursor's rapid growth
• ▹Building query attribution and guardrails: instrumenting every database query by service, catching bad patterns before they hit production
• ▹Defining the "when to use what" strategy for data stores: creating clear guidance and golden pathways for every team
• ▹Owning cache infrastructure end-to-end: reliability, capacity planning, and patterns that let product teams move fast

Requirements

• ▹Deep experience with relational databases at scale, especially Postgres, MySQL or similar OLTP systems
• ▹Experience tackling database sharding, migration or decomposition problems in production
• ▹Understanding of the tradeoffs between storage engines, helping teams choose the right one for their workload
• ▹Proactive thinking about operational excellence: backups, monitoring, query performance, capacity planning
• ▹Strong software engineering fundamentals

Soft skills

About the company

Cursor's mission is to automate coding. The organization is very flat, with a small, talent-dense team building the best tool for professional programmers by combining inventive research, design and engineering.