Cursor
Software Engineer, Client Infrastructure
About this role
Join Cursor's Client Infrastructure team to design and build the systems powering a fast-growing AI-driven code editor used by millions of developers. You'll own critical infrastructure spanning build systems, performance optimization, and observability across macOS, Windows, and Linux platforms.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain core client architecture including shared abstractions, build systems, and observability foundations
- Optimize performance and reliability by debugging memory leaks, crashes, and frame-time issues
- Build instrumentation and telemetry systems for profiling, logging, and performance measurement
- Evaluate architectural tradeoffs between Electron and native approaches for performance-critical code
- Enable other teams to ship safely and quickly by creating internal developer tooling
- Partner with product teams to support daily release cycles and fast shipping velocity
What they're looking for
- Client infrastructure and systems design
- Build systems and distribution
- Performance profiling and optimization
- Desktop application development (Electron or native)
- Observability and instrumentation
- C++, Rust, or TypeScript
- Cross-platform development (macOS, Windows, Linux)
- Debugging and troubleshooting
Opens the application — the Jobs AI extension fills it for you. Set up autofill
Opens the official application on the employer’s site. No login required.
Cursor
Cursor builds an AI-driven code editor used by millions of developers to transform how software is built. The company is hiring for infrastructure engineers, ML systems specialists, enterprise platform builders, security engineers, and customer success roles focused on driving adoption within large organizations.
- Website
- cursor.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you optimized performance in a desktop application—what was the bottleneck, how did you measure it, and what was the impact?
- Describe your experience with build systems and distribution pipelines. How have you improved shipping velocity or reliability?