# Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

**Company:** [Cursor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cursor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Skills:** Spark, Ray Data, Kafka, Flink, S3, Iceberg, Delta Lake, ClickHouse, dbt, Dagster
**Posted:** 2026-01-18

> Builds and scales large-scale data infrastructure including batch systems with Spark and Ray Data, streaming pipelines with Kafka/Flink, and storage on S3/Iceberg. Requires deep hands-on experience with production data pipelines and performance debugging.

## Job Description

## What we're looking for

We’re looking for someone who has built real systems at scale and cares about correctness, cost, and ergonomics.

Strong signals include:
- Deep experience with Spark (Databricks or open-source Spark both count)
- Production experience with Ray Data
- Hands-on ownership of large data pipelines and storage systems
- Comfort debugging performance issues across compute, storage, and networking layers
- Clear thinking about data modeling and long-term maintainability

**Nice to have**
- Experience running or scaling ClickHouse
- Familiarity with dbt, Dagster, or similar orchestration and modeling tools

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