Software Engineer, Client Infrastructure
Cursor · San Francisco, CA · Engineering
About this role
Cursor is hiring a mid-level Infrastructure Engineer in the software engineering function based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with System Design, Linux, Observability.
- Role
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- Nov 19, 2025
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Job description
from Cursor careersOur 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 an Engineer on the Client Infrastructure team at Cursor, you’ll design and build the systems that make our desktop experience performant and stable for millions of developers.
You’ll work across the core architecture of the Cursor client—from build and distribution systems to performance instrumentation and shared abstractions that other teams rely on. The work is deeply technical and central to the company’s success. Developers expect near-perfect performance and reliability from their trusted tools; your work will make that possible.
Cursor’s client is growing fast, spanning macOS, Windows, and Linux, and serving an increasingly diverse user base of professional engineers across many programming languages and developer ecosystems. You’ll shape the systems that let us ship safely and quickly, while pushing the limits of what’s possible in an AI-driven development environment.
Example projects include...
Building core client infrastructure: shared abstractions, build systems, and observability foundations.
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