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Engineering Manager, Core Services

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. Our organization is very flat, and our team is smal

Company

Cursor

Location

San Francisco; New York

Status

Open

Posted

2026-04-07T01:06:46.286+00:00

Cursor is hiring an engineering manager for its Core Services team, the group owning shared backend systems that sit between product surfaces and the infrastructure layer. The work covers authentication architecture, the agent backend, a high-throughput webhook server with retries and dead-letter queues, source-control integrations, and end-to-end agent reliability. The manager leads a small team, writes and reviews code, and partners with product and infrastructure groups. The posting asks for experience leading backend services teams, judgement on distributed systems reliability, and hiring. OAuth, JWTs and RBAC are named as useful.