Build platform-level primitives for resilient systems at SpaceXSI, supporting hundreds of engineers and millions of developers.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Establish durable workflow orchestration
- Design a declarative service configuration framework
- Define the contract for service ownership
Must have
- Experience building internal developer platforms
- Experience with service frameworks or infrastructure abstractions
Nice to have
- Experience working extensively with Temporal
- Care deeply about developer experience
- Experience with deployment tooling
- Understand tradeoffs in microservice vs. monolith architectures
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Software Engineer for the Services Platform at SpaceXSI, the individual will focus on creating robust platform-level tools that enhance developer experience and ensure system reliability. Key skills include experience with internal developer platforms, service frameworks, and orchestration systems like Temporal, alongside a strong foundation in software engineering. This position is well-suited for engineers who have a background in building infrastructure that supports other teams and who prioritize simplicity and efficiency in their designs.
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).
- CI/CD appears in 3.4% of 261 comparable mid backend roles in United States; Microservices appears in 0.8% of 261 comparable mid backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, Services 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: CI/CD, Microservices, Temporal, monolith.
- 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, Services Platform role at Cursor.
From the original posting
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SERVICES PLATFORM
As a Software Engineer, Services Platform at SpaceXSI, you'll build the platform-level primitives that make it hard for product teams to build brittle systems and easy to build resilient ones. SpaceXSI is scaling fast, hundreds of engineers shipping to millions of developers, and your core focus will be the abstractions that make that sustainable: service provisioning, deploy tooling, workflow orchestration, and defining what it means to own and operate a service at SpaceXSI. You'll work at the intersection of developer experience and production reliability, building the golden pathways that every engineering team runs on.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Establish durable workflow orchestration as a first-class platform: defining best practices, building shared abstractions, and creating the standard that every team uses for reliable, long-running workflows
Design a declarative service configuration framework that makes it trivial to provision, deploy, and operate new services, so spinning up a new backend goes from days to minutes
Define the contract for service ownership: what it means to own a service, how services integrate with SpaceXSI's infrastructure abstractions, and how the service catalogue is built so incidents get resolved in minutes, not hours
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience building internal developer platforms, service frameworks, or infrastructure abstractions that other engineers depend on
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Experience working extensively with Temporal, durable workflow engines, or similar orchestration systems and strong opinions on best practices
Care deeply about developer experience. You think about how other engineers interact with your systems and design for simplicity and correctness by default
Experience with deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or service mesh architectures
Understand the tradeoffs in microservice vs. monolith architectures and can help teams navigate service decomposition pragmatically
Strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoying shipping production systems that make the entire organization more productive
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team
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.
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