Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Cursor
San Francisco, New YorkPosted 7 April 2026

Job Description

Careers Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering · Full-time · San Francisco, New York Apply ↓ Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code. Role Infrastructure engineers build the platform that supports Cursor's functionality. Sometimes this means inventing highly-available distributed systems. Sometimes this means dealing with woes of scaling to millions of programmers. Sample projects include... Creating a retrieval system that processes 10,000,000,000+ files Staring at esoteric flame graphs to performance engineer our reranking library Working with many databases, proxies, caches, task queues, and orchestration systems Shipping infra for safely computing import graphs and shadow lints About Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truthseeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code. We're in-person with cozy offices in North Beach, San Francisco and Manhattan, New York, replete with well-stocked libraries. Applying If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team. #LI-DNI Apply for this role Name * Email * Resume ↥ Upload file LinkedIn URL GitHub Profile Please write a short note on a project you're proud of: Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the country where this position is located? * Has someone at Cursor referred you for this role? If so, please include their email here Submit application →
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