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Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Backend Developer
• On-site
• Full-time
• 📍 San Francisco
On the Infrastructure team, own the foundational cloud and networking layer every Cursor service runs on: network foundations, container orchestration, edge and security infrastructure, and production compute runtimes.
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Responsibilities
- ▹Own Kubernetes and cluster foundations, building and operating production clusters with service mesh, scaling, and ingress
- ▹Design the geo-deployment architecture for replicable, robust multi-region, multi-provider deployments
- ▹Build edge and security infrastructure for abuse protection, rate limiting, and traffic routing
- ▹Own cost management and optimization, building attribution systems and eliminating waste across cloud spend
- ▹Unify the compute platform with a single, opinionated container orchestration strategy
Requirements
- ▹Deep experience with AWS (or comparable cloud providers), especially VPC networking, EKS/K8s, and IAM/account management
- ▹Experience building and operating production Kubernetes clusters at scale, including service mesh, autoscaling, and multi-region deployments
- ▹Understanding of edge networking, CDN/WAF architectures, and traffic management
- ▹Care for infrastructure-as-code and reproducibility so other teams can self-serve reliable infrastructure
- ▹Strong software engineering fundamentals
Nice to have
- ▹Experience with cost optimization at scale
- ▹Experience with infrastructure migration or unification
Soft skills
Cares about making other teams faster and more self-sufficientReliability-oriented systems thinking
About the company
Cursor's mission is to automate coding, and it is one of the fastest-growing developer tools in the world.
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