engineering
Posted 4 weeks agoSoftware Engineer, Storage
at cursor
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- experience with relational databases at scale, especially Postgres, MySQL, or similar OLTP systems.
- - You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy building systems that other engineers depend on.
Contact
- After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team. #LI-DNI
Additional details
- 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.
- ABOUT THE ROLE 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.
- You'll design and execute the path to a robust, multi-database topology built for that growth.
- - Designing the next-generation data architecture: evolving our storage layer into a partitioned, resilient topology that keeps pace with Cursor's rapid growth.
- - 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.
- - 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.
- - Owning cache infrastructure end-to-end: reliability, capacity planning, and patterns that let product teams move fast without worrying about cache correctness.