Software Engineer Compute Infrastructure
Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor)Visit Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor) website
Cursor is an AI coding-agent product operated by Anysphere, Inc.; it was acquired by SpaceX in August 2026 and continues to operate.
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About Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor)
Cursor provides AI-assisted software-development tools, including desktop and CLI coding agents, autonomous cloud agents, code review, and enterprise offerings.
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About the Role
You will build sandbox infrastructure that gives agents their own virtual machines. You will develop virtualization, control-plane, storage, and networking systems, scale scheduling for large VM clusters, build VM data capabilities, and design secure, resilient infrastructure across cloud and on-premise datacenters.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline, or 2+ years of professional software-building experience
- Experience building compute orchestration
- Experience building and operating large fleets of VMs or isolated sandboxes
- Experience with the Linux kernel and virtualization technologies
Responsibilities
- Rearchitect the control plane and scheduler to support one million concurrent VMs per cluster
- Build a ublk block device for deduplication, lazy loading, and VM data snapshots
- Design an egress proxy and network isolation for agent traffic
- Design resilient systems across cloud and on-premise datacenters