engineering
Posted Dec 15, 2025Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
at cursor
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- experience inside Cursor: fast builds, intuitive tooling, reliable environments, and seamless CI/CD.
- EXAMPLE PROJECTS INCLUDE - Building a multi-platform development environment that works seamlessly across macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- experience working on developer productivity, internal platform, infrastructure, or build/test systems.
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 You will be a core contributor on the Developer Productivity team, designing and building the systems, tools, and workflows that make every Cursor developer incredibly productive.
- You’ll architect, implement, and operate the foundations that power our engineering organization—from local development to global deployments.
- You’ll set technical direction within the team, write and review code, and collaborate across engineering to make it effortless for developers to build, test, and ship quickly.
- Excellence means Cursor engineers feel like they’re working in the best development environment in the world—one so good that parts of it could eventually become external features of Cursor itself.
- - Designing and maintaining CI/CD systems—merge queues, build caching, flaky test quarantine, observability, and safe rollout pipelines.
- - Partnering with backend and infrastructure teams to ensure local testing and debugging just work, with near-perfect parity between development and CI environments.