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Software Engineer, Security
San FranciscofulltimemidAdded 1 month ago
About this role
Join a small, elite engineering team building security solutions for an AI-powered coding platform. You'll design and implement end-to-end security across enterprise systems, cloud infrastructure, and product features while maintaining excellent developer experience.
What you'll do
- Design and build secure systems covering enterprise security, cloud infrastructure, and embedded product protections
- Develop AI-augmented code review and secure agent execution frameworks
- Implement least-privilege access controls and just-in-time cloud authorization systems
- Own security solutions end-to-end with minimal guidance in a fast-moving environment
- Balance security rigor with pragmatism to enable developer velocity
- Anticipate vulnerabilities and build preventative safeguards into products
What they're looking for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with security expertise
- Cloud and infrastructure security
- Secure system design and threat modeling
- Experience with least-privilege and access control systems
- Understanding of secure defaults and compliance
- Ability to think like both builder and attacker
- Experience shipping in fast-paced environments
- Developer experience and usability awareness
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Cursor builds an AI-driven code editor used by millions of developers to transform how software is built. The company is hiring for infrastructure engineers, ML systems specialists, enterprise platform builders, security engineers, and customer success roles focused on driving adoption within large organizations.
- Website
- cursor.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe a time you identified and fixed a security vulnerability before it reached production. How did you think about it differently than a typical feature?
- How do you approach building security controls that developers actually want to use? Tell us about a time you balanced security rigor with usability.