Engineering Manager, Cloud Infra & Platform

Cursor; California (MO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is building the best tool for professional programmers. As Engineering Manager on the Infrastructure team, you’ll lead the foundations powering all services—cloud, networking, storage, and compute—and drive cost management and geo deployment strategy to enable scalable growth.

You will set technical direction, write and review code, and mentor infrastructure engineers, balancing hands-on work with growing your team's impact to ship reliable infrastructure at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams building and operating production infrastructure or platform systems at scale.
• Deep experience with AWS (or comparable cloud providers), especially VPC networking, EKS/K8s, and IAM/account management.
• Built and operated production Kubernetes clusters at scale, including service mesh, autoscaling, and multi-region deployments.

Responsibilities

• Owning Kubernetes and cluster foundations: building and operating production clusters with proper service mesh, scaling, and ingress that teams can confidently deploy to.
• Designing the geo-deployment architecture: building a replicable, robust process for deploying geo-replicated services across cloud regions and providers.
• Building edge and security infrastructure: designing the networking and security layer at the edge to protect against abuse, manage rate limiting, and optimize traffic routing.
• Owning data storage strategy: leading the team's work on Postgres, OLAP systems, and caching layers, ensuring our storage infrastructure is reliable, performant, and scales with the product.
• Owning cost management and optimization: building attribution systems, identifying waste, and ensuring we're making smart tradeoffs between cost and reliability across all cloud spend.
• Unifying the compute platform: defining a single, opinionated container orchestration strategy so every team gets consistent, reliable deployments out of the box.
• Hiring and growing the team: sourcing, interviewing, and closing top infrastructure talent, while developing your engineers through coaching, mentorship, and high‑leverage project assignments.

Skills

Leadership

Kubernetes

AWS (EKS, VPC)

Cost optimization

Infrastructure as code

Postgres/Databases

Tools

Terraform

Docker

GitOps

Job description

Cursor is building the best tool for professional programmers. As Engineering Manager on the Infrastructure team, you’ll lead the foundations powering all services—cloud, networking, storage, and compute—and drive cost management and geo deployment strategy to enable scalable growth.

You will set technical direction, write and review code, and mentor infrastructure engineers, balancing hands-on work with growing your team's impact to ship reliable infrastructure at scale.