Software Engineer, Services Platform

<p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><h2>About the Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a Software Engineer, Services Platform at Cursor, you'll build the platform-level primitives that make it hard for product teams to build brittle systems and easy to build resilient ones. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Cursor is scaling fast, hundreds of engineers shipping to millions of developers, and your core focus will be the abstractions that make that sustainable: service provisioning, deploy tooling, workflow orchestration, and defining what it means to own and operate a service at Cursor. You'll work at the intersection of developer experience and production reliability, building the golden pathways that every engineering team runs on.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>Example projects include...</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Establishing durable workflow orchestration as a first-class platform: defining best practices, building shared abstractions, and creating the standard that every team uses for reliable, long-running workflows.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Designing a declarative service configuration framework that makes it trivial to provision, deploy, and operate new services, so spinning up a new backend goes from days to minutes.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Defining the contract for service ownership: what it means to own a service, how services integrate with Cursor's infrastructure abstractions, and building the service catalogue so incidents get resolved in minutes, not hours.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>You may be a fit if</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have experience building internal developer platforms, service frameworks, or infrastructure abstractions that other engineers depend on.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You've worked extensively with Temporal, durable workflow engines, or similar orchestration systems and have strong opinions on best practices.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You care deeply about developer experience. You think about how other engineers interact with your systems and design for simplicity and correctness by default.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have experience with deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or service mesh architectures.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You understand the tradeoffs in microservice vs. monolith architectures and can help teams navigate service decomposition pragmatically.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy shipping production systems that make the entire organization more productive.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Applying</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">#LI-DNI</p>