# Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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

> Builds and operates core infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters, geo-deployments, edge security, and cost optimization to support rapid growth and team productivity. Requires deep AWS/K8s experience and strong engineering fundamentals.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own Kubernetes and cluster foundations: build and operate production clusters with service mesh, scaling, and ingress.
- Design geo-deployment architecture: build replicable process for deploying geo-replicated services across cloud regions and providers.
- Build edge and security infrastructure: design networking and security layer at edge for abuse protection, rate limiting, and traffic routing.
- Own cost management and optimization: build attribution systems, identify waste, and ensure smart tradeoffs between cost and reliability.
- Unify compute platform: define single container orchestration strategy for consistent, reliable deployments.

## Requirements

- Deep experience with AWS (or comparable), especially VPC networking, EKS/K8s, and IAM/account management.
- Built and operated production Kubernetes clusters at scale, including service mesh, autoscaling, and multi-region deployments.
- Understand edge networking, CDN/WAF architectures, and traffic management at infrastructure level.
- Care about infrastructure-as-code, reproducibility, and enabling self-serve reliable infrastructure for other teams.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience with cost optimization at scale or infrastructure migration/unification.

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