Software Engineer, Storage at Cursor

📋 Description

• Own the data layer: databases, caches, and provisioning strategies.
• Design and implement a robust, multi-database topology to scale.
• Design next-gen data architecture; partitioned, resilient storage.
• Build query attribution and guardrails; monitor patterns before production.
• Define data-store guidelines to help teams pick the right engine.
• Own cache infrastructure end-to-end: reliability and capacity planning.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience with relational databases at scale (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• You've tackled database sharding, migrations, or decomposition.
• Understand storage engine tradeoffs; guide teams on engine choices.
• Care about operational excellence: backups, monitoring, performance.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals; build reusable systems.