Cursor
Engineering Manager, Core Services
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 106 days ago
Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentOAuthResearchMentoring
About the role
- Cursor is redefining how developers write code, and your team is what makes that possible at scale.
Responsibilities
- Building a robust webhook server: handling high-throughput event delivery with proper retry semantics, dead-letter queues, and observability so external integrations just work.
- Hardening SCM integrations: building resilient abstractions over source control providers so Cursor stays rock-solid regardless of third-party conditions.
- Hiring and growing the team: sourcing, interviewing, and closing top backend and services talent, while developing your engineers through coaching, mentorship, and high-leverage project assignments.
- You care deeply about clean abstractions, well-defined service contracts, and making it easy for other engineers to build on top of your work.
- The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering.
Requirements
- You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy owning the full lifecycle of production services.
Nice to have
- Experience with authentication/authorization frameworks (OAuth, JWTs, RBAC), event-driven architectures, or building developer-facing platform services is a plus.
Skills
- designing and implementing a scalable auth architecture that secures one of the most widely-used developer tools in the world.
Company info
- You have led engineering teams building and operating critical backend services, especially auth systems, API gateways, or webhook infrastructure.
- You've worked on distributed systems and have strong opinions on reliability and performance of complex multi-step systems.
- You'll set technical direction for authentication, SCM integrations, webhook infrastructure, and end-to-end agent reliability, driving the quality of the services layer that the entire company builds on top of.
- Our mission is to automate coding.
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