Software Engineer, Infrastructure
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Job overview
Infrastructure engineers at Anysphere build the platform that powers Cursor, inventing highly‑available distributed systems and tackling scaling challenges for millions of programmers. The team works on retrieval systems, performance engineering, and integrates databases, proxies, caches, task queues, and orchestration tools to ship reliable infrastructure for import graphs and shadow linting.
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Full job description
Role Infrastructure engineers build the platform that supports Cursor's functionality. Sometimes this means inventing highly-available distributed systems. Sometimes this means dealing with woes of scaling to millions of programmers.
Sample projects include...
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Creating a retrieval system that processes 10,000,000,000+ files
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Staring at esoteric flame graphs to performance engineer our reranking library
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Working with many databases, proxies, caches, task queues, and orchestration systems
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Shipping infra for safely computing import graphs and shadow lints
About Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. We're a group of engineers and scientists who've built beloved products, created large OSS projects, started at-scale businesses, won olympiad medals, and published significant research (e.g. tmm1, ian, luke, phil, federico, aman, sualeh). Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truthseeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code. We're in-person with cozy offices in North Beach, San Francisco and Manhattan, New York, replete with well-stocked libraries. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, John Schulman, and the founders of Stripe and Github.
Applying If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.
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