Software Engineer, Storage

<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 on the Storage team at Cursor, you'll own the data layer that underpins every product surface: the databases, caches, and the strategy for how teams provision, query, and scale their data stores. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Millions of developers depend on Cursor every day, and the future of our storage architecture is one of the highest-leverage problems at the company: get it right, and every team ships faster, every product surface gets more reliable, and Cursor can scale to meet explosive demand. You'll design and execute the path to a robust, multi-database topology built for that growth.</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">Designing the next-generation data architecture: evolving our storage layer into a partitioned, resilient topology that keeps pace with Cursor's rapid growth.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Building query attribution and guardrails: instrumenting every database query by service, catching bad patterns before they hit production, and making it impossible to ship problematic queries without review.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Defining the "when to use what" strategy for data stores: creating clear guidance and golden pathways so every team picks the right engine for their workload without second-guessing.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Owning cache infrastructure end-to-end: reliability, capacity planning, and patterns that let product teams move fast without worrying about cache correctness.</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 deep experience with relational databases at scale, especially Postgres, MySQL, or similar OLTP systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You've tackled database sharding, migration, or decomposition problems in production environments.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You understand the tradeoffs between different storage engines and can help teams make the right choices for their workloads.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You care about operational excellence: backups, monitoring, query performance, and capacity planning are things you think about proactively.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy building systems that other engineers depend on.</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>