Software Engineer, Storage

About this role

Join Cursor's Storage team to design and own the data layer serving millions of developers. You'll architect scalable database topologies, implement query safeguards, and define data store strategies that enable rapid product growth and reliability across the platform.

What you'll do

• Design and execute next-generation data architecture supporting multi-database topology at scale
• Build query attribution systems and guardrails to catch problematic patterns before production
• Create guidance and golden pathways for teams selecting appropriate data stores by workload
• Own cache infrastructure including reliability, capacity planning, and correctness patterns
• Ensure operational excellence through backups, monitoring, performance tuning, and capacity planning
• Collaborate with product teams to enable fast shipping without compromising data integrity

What they're looking for

• Relational database expertise (Postgres, MySQL, or similar OLTP systems)
• Database sharding, migration, and decomposition in production
• Storage engine architecture and tradeoff analysis
• Cache infrastructure design and management
• Query performance optimization and monitoring
• Systems design and software engineering fundamentals
• Operational excellence and infrastructure reliability
• Capacity planning and scaling strategies