# Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Cursor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cursor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Skills:** Kubernetes, AWS, EKS, Postgres, Service Mesh, Vpc, IAM, ClickHouse, Olap, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-04-07

> Leads infrastructure team managing cloud, networking, storage, and compute for high-scale developer tool. Sets technical direction, codes, hires, and optimizes costs/regional deployments with deep Kubernetes/AWS expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the infrastructure team owning cloud, networking, storage, and compute layers including network foundations, container orchestration, edge and security infrastructure, data storage systems, and compute runtimes.
- Set technical direction, write and review code, and manage a team of infrastructure engineers.
- Drive cost management, regional deployment strategy, and infrastructure unification.
- Example projects: Own Kubernetes clusters with service mesh, scaling, and ingress; design geo-deployment architecture; build edge and security infrastructure; own data storage strategy (Postgres, OLAP, caching); manage cost optimization; unify compute platform; hire and grow the team.

## Requirements
- Led engineering teams building/operating production infrastructure or platform systems at scale.
- Deep experience with AWS (VPC networking, EKS/K8s, IAM/account management) or comparable clouds.
- Built/operated production Kubernetes clusters at scale (service mesh, autoscaling, multi-region).
- Strong knowledge of databases, storage engines, caching, schema design, and tradeoffs (performance, consistency, cost).
- Experience with edge networking, CDN/WAF, traffic management.
- Care about infrastructure-as-code, reproducibility, self-service for teams.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Cost optimization at scale, infrastructure migration/unification, data storage systems (Postgres, ClickHouse, OLAP).

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