7 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own and scale authentication architecture for Cursor.
- Build and optimize backend infrastructure supporting agent workflows.
- Develop a robust webhook server with retry semantics, dead-letter queues, and observability.
- Create resilient abstractions over source-control providers and integrations.
- Improve end-to-end reliability and performance from user action through agent response.
- Own the full lifecycle of production backend services and provide clean abstractions and service contracts for other engineers.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating critical backend services, particularly authentication systems, API gateways, or webhook infrastructure.
- Experience with agentic products or infrastructure and reliability and performance of complex multi-step systems.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience owning production services through their full lifecycle.
- Ability to design clean abstractions and well-defined service contracts.
- Experience with OAuth, JWTs, RBAC, event-driven architectures, or developer-facing platform services is a plus.
Benefits
- The interview process includes 2–3 short technical interviews followed by an onsite interview at the company office with a small project and team discussions.
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About Cursor
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.