Software Engineer, Storage

What this role involves

This role involves owning the data layer at Cursor, including databases, caches, and storage strategy. The engineer will design next-generation data architecture, build query attribution and guardrails, and define data store selection guidelines. Required experience includes relational databases at scale and operational excellence.

Skills this posting asks for

• postgres
• mysql
• oltp
• database sharding
• database migration
• database decomposition
• storage engines
• backups
• monitoring
• query performance
• capacity planning
• cache infrastructure
• query attribution
• software engineering fundamentals

Requirements

• Remote policy: onsite

From the employer’s posting

Our 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 tru…