Role at a glance
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, United States New York, United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- deep experience with relational databases at scale
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Role Summary
The Software Engineer will join Cursor’s Storage team and own the data layer supporting the company’s product surfaces, including databases, caches, and data-store provisioning, querying, and scaling strategies. The role focuses on building a robust, multi-database topology that supports product reliability and company growth.
What You'll Do
- Design the next-generation data architecture, including a partitioned and resilient storage topology.
- Build query attribution and guardrails by instrumenting database queries and identifying problematic patterns before production.
- Define guidance and standard pathways for selecting data stores based on workload needs.
- Own cache infrastructure, including reliability, capacity planning, and usage patterns for product teams.
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View full postingQualifications
Deep experience with relational databases at scale, especially Postgres, MySQL, or similar OLTP systems; production experience with database sharding, migration, or decomposition; understanding of storage-engine tradeoffs; operational focus on backups, monitoring, query performance, and capacity planning; strong software engineering fundamentals.
Required
- Relational databases at scale, especially Postgres, MySQL, or similar OLTP systems
- Database sharding, migration, or decomposition in production environments
- Understanding of tradeoffs between different storage engines
- Operational excellence across backups, monitoring, query performance, and capacity planning
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
Original job description
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Original job description
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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.
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.
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.
Example projects include...
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.
You may be a fit if
You have deep experience with relational databases at scale, especially Postgres, MySQL, or similar OLTP systems.
You've tackled database sharding, migration, or decomposition problems in production environments.
You understand the tradeoffs between different storage engines and can help teams make the right choices for their workloads.
You care about operational excellence: backups, monitoring, query performance, and capacity planning are things you think about proactively.
You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy building systems that other engineers depend on.
Applying
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.
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About the company
Cursor
Startup
Cursor is an innovative technology company specializing in software development and digital solutions tailored for businesses of all sizes. With a focus on enhancing user experience and operational efficiency, Cursor offers a range of products, including custom applications, cloud services, and data analytics tools. The company prides itself on its collaborative approach, working closely with clients to understand their unique needs and deliver effective solutions. Committed to driving digital transformation, Cursor strives to empower organizations through cutting-edge technology and exceptional service.
Cursor is an innovative technology company specializing in software development and digital solutions tailored for businesses of all sizes. With a focus on enhancing user experience and operational efficiency, Cursor offers a range of products, including custom applications, cloud services, and data analytics tools. The company prides itself on its collaborative approach, working closely with clients to understand their unique needs and deliver effective solutions. Committed to driving digital transformation, Cursor strives to empower organizations through cutting-edge technology and exceptional service.