220K–357K USD / year
Engineering Manager, Agent & Product Security
Engineering managerHybrid — New York, NY, Palo Alto, CA
Published on 2026-11-10
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About this role
Lead the team building security foundations for Cursor’s coding agents as they become more autonomous. The role spans customer-code isolation, agent identity and permissions, secure tool execution, and usable security controls for enterprise customers.
About the company
Cursor builds an AI coding editor and agent workflows that help developers write and ship software faster. It serves software teams looking for tighter AI assistance inside the IDE.
What you'll do
- Define security primitives for trusted autonomous agents
- Build tenancy, workspace, secrets, and data protections
- Develop agent identity, scoped permissions, policy enforcement, and secure tool execution
- Create customer-facing security controls and measure security outcomes
- Hire, coach, and grow the security engineering team while staying technically involved
What we're looking for
- Experience leading teams that ship production systems with significant security, reliability, or platform stakes
- Knowledge of application security, authorization, tenancy, identity, secrets, and data isolation
- Strong product and systems judgment, including threat modeling and operational tradeoffs
- Understanding of AI-agent tools, authority, prompt injection, and data exfiltration risks
- Ability to set direction in ambiguous environments and collaborate across product, infrastructure, ML, and customer-facing teams
Nice to have
- Experience building security capabilities that enable product functionality
- Comfort working in a problem space where established solutions are limited
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Other discounts and perks