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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

at Cursor

📍 SF / NY Unknown Posted March 08, 2026
Type Full-Time
Experience mid
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category Cloud & Infrastructure

This role involves building and maintaining the infrastructure platform supporting Cursor's core functionalities, including distributed systems, scaling, and performance optimization.

  • Build distributed systems and scalable infrastructure
  • Optimize system performance
  • Work with databases, caches, and orchestration tools
  • Develop retrieval and reranking systems
  • Ensure system reliability and scalability

The technical environment includes distributed systems, databases, caches, proxies, task queues, and orchestration tools, focusing on high availability and performance.

The ideal candidate is a mid-level infrastructure engineer with experience designing and scaling distributed systems, working with databases, caches, and orchestration tools. They are passionate about performance optimization and building highly available systems.

Distributed SystemsScalingDatabasesPerformance Engineering
Retrieval SystemsCachesTask QueuesOrchestration Systems
DatabasesProxiesCachesTask QueuesOrchestration Systems
Distributed SystemsScalingDatabasesProxiesCachesTask QueuesOrchestration SystemsPerformance EngineeringRetrieval Systems
Distributed SystemsScalingDatabasesProxiesCachesTask QueuesOrchestration SystemsPerformance EngineeringRetrieval Systems
CreativityPassionTruth-seekingDebateCollaboration
Industry SaaS
Job Function Design and implement scalable infrastructure for Cursor's platform
Infrastructure EngineerDistributed SystemsScalingDatabasesProxiesCachesTask QueuesOrchestration SystemsPerformance EngineeringRetrieval SystemRetrieval SystemsPerformance Optimization

Lack of experience with distributed systems, No background in performance engineering, Unwillingness to work on infrastructure projects

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