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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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7 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Build and operate production Kubernetes clusters with service mesh, autoscaling, ingress, and reliable deployment foundations.
  • Design geo-replicated deployment architecture across cloud regions and providers.
  • Build edge networking and security infrastructure for abuse protection, rate limiting, and traffic routing.
  • Develop cost-attribution systems, identify infrastructure waste, and optimize cloud spend while balancing cost and reliability.
  • Define and unify an opinionated container orchestration strategy for consistent deployments across teams.
  • Make reliable infrastructure easier for other engineering teams to self-serve.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with AWS or comparable cloud providers, particularly VPC networking, EKS/Kubernetes, 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 infrastructure-level traffic management.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, reproducibility, and self-service infrastructure practices.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and interest in building platforms for other engineering teams.
  • Experience with large-scale cost optimization or infrastructure migration/unification is preferred.

Benefits

  • The interview process includes 2–3 short technical interviews followed by an onsite interview at the office with a small project, idea discussion, and team meetings.

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About Cursor

1,001-5,000 employees

Cursor is an AI-powered code editor and coding assistant from Anysphere, built for professional software engineers and enterprise teams. It combines a VS Code–style editor with integrated AI chat, code generation, and repo-aware refactoring, and is sold via individual, team, and enterprise subscriptions. The company also targets sectors like healthcare and state and local education with field engineers who support evaluations and proofs of concept.

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