Joblaze summary

The Enterprise Platform Engineer at Cursor focuses on developing robust systems for organization management, access control, and compliance tailored for large engineering clients. Key skills include experience with scalable systems, role-based access control (RBAC), and multi-tenant infrastructure. This role is suited for individuals with a strong technical background in building secure, enterprise-level solutions and a keen understanding of authorization complexities. The position emphasizes collaboration with various teams to ensure that enterprise features are delivered efficiently without compromising security.

Joblaze insights

Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 10, 2026. Last confirmed on Cursor's careers page November 10, 2026.
This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Cursor: San Francisco, CA.
Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
Starts above 49% of 136 comparable mid backend roles in United States we track (median $140,000 across 57 companies).
API appears in 2.7% of 261 comparable mid backend roles in United States; IAM appears in 0.8% of 261 comparable mid backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform role remote?: No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the salary range?: Cursor lists $140,000–$225,000 for this role.
Where is the role based?: Cursor is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: API, IAM, RBAC, SCIM.
What seniority level is this role?: Cursor targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform role at Cursor.

From the original posting

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, ENTERPRISE PLATFORM

We're hiring an Enterprise Platform Engineer to build the foundational systems that make Cursor ready for the world's largest engineering organizations. Today we have basic organizations, simple IAM primitives, early audit logs, analytics APIs, and admin APIs, but enterprise customers need much more. You will design and build the platform layer that powers organization management, access control, compliance, and administrative tooling across Cursor's product surface. This is a deeply technical IC role focused on building correct, secure, and scalable enterprise infrastructure, not gluing together vendor SDKs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Build and evolve our organization management system, multi-level org structures, groups, roles, lifecycle, and provisioning via SCIM, so admins can manage thousands of seats without friction
Design and implement RBAC with fine-grained roles, permissions, and resource scopes that cover organizations, teams, agents, and other resources, balancing security with developer ergonomics
Extend enterprise settings and policies, org-wide defaults, security policies (allowed models, MCPs, Tools, network restrictions), and configuration inheritance across different products; deepen our audit logging infrastructure, comprehensive, queryable, tamper-evident audit trails that satisfy customer-specific compliance requirements
Build admin APIs and internal tooling that enterprise admins, customer success, and sales engineering depend on to manage organizations, investigate access issues, and onboard large accounts
Ship compliance features end-to-end, SSO enforcement, session management, allowlisting, data analytics, and the controls that procurement and security teams require before signing
Partner with product, security, and infrastructure teams to define enterprise platform abstractions that scale across the product without slowing down feature development

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience designing and building scalable systems or shared platform infrastructure.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Opinions on permission models, role inheritance, and policy evaluation
Experience building multi-tenant organization or IAM systems in production and opinions on permission models, role inheritance, and policy evaluation
Experience shipping RBAC or ABAC systems and understand the tradeoffs between flexibility and complexity
Care deeply about correctness in authorization and understand why "fail closed" matters
Able to hold the tension between "ship enterprise features fast" and "do not create security gaps or break existing access patterns."
Feel comfortable shipping features end-to-end, from database schema and API design to admin UI and documentation

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Onsite role: must be able to work in person at the San Francisco office

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:

$140,000 - $225,000 USD

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

Standard company text repeated across Cursor's postings is omitted here.

Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform

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