Software Engineer, Services Platform
Core
Build platform-level primitives for service provisioning, deploy tooling, and workflow orchestration to enable resilient systems for hundreds of engineers.
Role type
Senior IC Platform Engineer (Internal Developer Platform)
Builds
Service provisioning frameworks, workflow orchestration systems, and deployment tooling for Cursor's engineering teams.
Domain
Software Engineering / Internal Developer Platforms / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Internal developer platform design, durable workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal), CI/CD pipeline architecture, service mesh knowledge, microservice vs monolith tradeoffs, software engineering fundamentals
Preferred skills
Experience building service frameworks, strong opinions on orchestration best practices, focus on developer experience
Technologies
Temporal, service mesh, CI/CD pipelines
Responsibilities
Define best practices for durable workflow orchestration, design declarative service configuration frameworks, establish service ownership contracts and catalogues
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC