Software Engineer, Core Services

Build and operate critical backend services for a developer tool company.

• •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 Core Services team at Cursor, you'll own the critical shared services that sit between our product surfaces and the infrastructure layer: auth, webhooks, and the backend systems that power agent workflows.
• •Cursor is redefining how developers write code, and your work is what makes that possible at scale.
• •You'll build the systems that every product team depends on, ensuring they are reliable, well-abstracted, and ready for whatever comes next.
• •Example projects include...
• •Owning authentication: designing and implementing a scalable auth architecture that secures one of the most widely-used developer tools in the world.