Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Core
Building and operating the foundational cloud, networking, and compute infrastructure that powers Cursor's production services and enables global developer tool growth.
Role type
Senior IC Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud & Networking)
Builds
Production Kubernetes clusters, geo-replicated service architectures, edge security layers, and unified compute platforms.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Networking, Security
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
AWS (VPC, EKS, IAM), Kubernetes (production scale, service mesh, autoscaling), Edge networking (CDN, WAF), Infrastructure-as-code, Cost optimization
Preferred skills
Multi-region deployment strategy, Infrastructure migration/unification
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, VPC, Service Mesh, CDN, WAF
Responsibilities
Designing geo-deployment architecture for multi-region cloud providers; Building edge and security infrastructure for traffic routing and abuse protection; Owning cost management and optimization systems for cloud spend; Unifying compute platform with consistent container orchestration strategy; Operating production clusters with proper scaling and ingress.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC