Software Engineer Core Services
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 own shared services between product surfaces and infrastructure, including authentication, webhooks, and backend systems for agent workflows. You will build scalable, reliable service foundations, harden source-control integrations, and improve end-to-end agent performance and reliability.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating critical backend services
- Experience with authentication systems, API gateways, or webhook infrastructure
- Experience with agentic products or infrastructure
- Knowledge of reliability and performance for complex multi-step systems
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Knowledge of OAuth, JWT, RBAC, event-driven architecture, or developer-facing platform services
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable authentication architecture
- Own infrastructure supporting agent workflows
- Build a high-throughput webhook server with retries, dead-letter queues, and observability
- Build resilient abstractions over source-control providers
- Improve end-to-end agent reliability with client and inference teams
Hiring Process
2–3 short technical interviews, followed by an onsite office project, idea discussion, and team meeting.