Engineering Manager, Core Services

Cursor
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Lead the Core Services team building and operating the shared backend services that power Cursor’s product surfaces and infrastructure, including authentication, webhooks, and agent workflows. Set technical direction for auth, SCM integrations, and webhook infrastructure, while mentoring a small, high-impact backend team to deliver reliable, well-abstracted services at scale.

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Engineering Manager, Core Services

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Job Summary

Lead the Core Services team building and operating the shared backend services that power Cursor’s product surfaces and infrastructure, including authentication, webhooks, and agent workflows. Set technical direction for auth, SCM integrations, and webhook infrastructure, while mentoring a small, high-impact backend team to deliver reliable, well-abstracted services at scale.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the Core Services team, owning the critical shared services that sit between our product surfaces and the infrastructure layer: auth, webhooks, and the backend systems that power agent workflows.
  • •Set technical direction for authentication, SCM integrations, webhook infrastructure, and end-to-end agent reliability, driving the quality of the services layer that the entire company builds on top of.
  • •Lead a small, high-impact team, write and review code, and partner closely with product and infrastructure teams to ensure Cursor's backend is rock-solid.
  • •Hire and grow the team: sourcing, interviewing, and closing top backend and services talent, while developing your engineers through coaching, mentorship, and high-leverage project assignments.
  • •Own and improve the reliability and performance of critical backend services and abstractions; ensure clean interfaces and well-defined service contracts.

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience leading engineering teams building and operating critical backend services, including auth systems, API gateways, or webhook infrastructure.
  • •Strong background in distributed systems with focus on reliability and performance.
  • •Experience designing scalable authentication/authorization architectures (OAuth, JWTs, RBAC).
  • •Ability to own full production lifecycle of services including writing and reviewing code and driving architecture.
  • •Excellent coaching/mentorship and team development.
Experience:Developer tools
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:OAuthJWTRBACWebhooksAPI gatewaysAuthenticationAuthorizationEvent-drivenDistributed systems

Company Brief

Cursor
Builds Cursor, an AI-powered development platform and code editor that helps developers write, review, and maintain code using large language models and developer-focused automation tools for enterprise engineering teams.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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