140K–225K USD / year
Software Engineer, Services Platform
BackendOn-site — San Francisco, CA
Published on 2026-11-10
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About this role
Build platform primitives that help product teams provision, deploy, and operate reliable services. Focus on workflow orchestration, declarative service configuration, and service ownership standards.
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
Foundations
What you'll do
- Establish shared abstractions and best practices for durable workflow orchestration
- Build declarative service configuration for faster service provisioning, deployment, and operations
- Define service ownership standards and develop a service catalogue
What we're looking for
- Experience building internal developer platforms, service frameworks, or infrastructure abstractions used by other engineers
Nice to have
- Extensive experience with Temporal, durable workflow engines, or similar orchestration systems
- Strong focus on developer experience and designing simple, reliable tools
- Experience with deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or service meshes
- Ability to guide pragmatic decisions about monolith and microservice architectures
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Other discounts and perks
Hiring process
- Two to three short technical interviews
- Onsite interview with a small project, discussion of ideas, and team meetings