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Software Engineer, Compute Infra
DevOpsOn-site — San Francisco, New York
Published on 2026-10-22
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About this role
Build infrastructure that provides isolated virtual machines for AI agents and other workloads. The role spans virtualization, control-plane and scheduler scaling, storage, networking, and reliable operations across cloud and on-premise datacenters.
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.
The team
Compute Infra, within the Engineering and Cloud teams.
Stack
FirecrackerCloud HypervisorLinuxKubernetesMesosublk
What you'll do
- Rearchitect the control plane and scheduler to support one million concurrent VMs per cluster.
- Build a ublk block device for deduplication, lazy loading, and efficient VM snapshots.
- Design an egress proxy and network isolation to filter, monitor, and route agent traffic securely.
- Build resilient systems operating across cloud and on-premise datacenters.
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a scientific discipline, or at least two years of professional software-building experience in lieu of a degree.
Nice to have
- Experience building compute orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or Mesos.
- Experience building and operating large fleets of VMs or isolated sandboxes.
- Experience with the Linux kernel and virtualization technologies.