Cloud & Kubernetes Infrastructure Engineer

Cursor; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is building the best tool for professional programmers, owning the cloud and networking foundations that power production. You will shape the infrastructure, cost strategy, and multi-region deployment while enabling teams to ship faster.

As an Infrastructure-focused Software Engineer, you will operate Kubernetes clusters at scale, manage edge security, and drive reproducible, self-serve infrastructure across the organization.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with AWS and VPC networking.
• Operated production Kubernetes clusters at scale with service mesh and autoscaling.
• Understanding of edge networking, CDN/WAF architectures, and traffic management.
• Infrastructure-as-code and reproducibility for self-serve infrastructure.
• Cost optimization at scale or infrastructure migration/unification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the foundational cloud and networking layer that services run on.
• Drive cost management, regional deployment strategy, and infrastructure unification.
• Design and maintain the compute platform and container orchestration strategy.
• Build edge and security infrastructure to protect against abuse and optimize traffic routing.
• Unify deployment patterns across teams to ensure reliable, scalable production.

Skills

AWS experience

Kubernetes expertise

Infrastructure as code

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Service Mesh

Job description

Cursor is building the best tool for professional programmers, owning the cloud and networking foundations that power production. You will shape the infrastructure, cost strategy, and multi-region deployment while enabling teams to ship faster.

As an Infrastructure-focused Software Engineer, you will operate Kubernetes clusters at scale, manage edge security, and drive reproducible, self-serve infrastructure across the organization.