Engineering Manager, Developer Productivity

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

About the Role

You will lead and contribute as an engineering manager on the DevEx team, helping build the systems, tools, and workflows that make every Cursor developer incredibly productive. Your team's mission is to create a world-class developer experience inside Cursor: fast builds, intuitive tooling, reliable environments, and seamless CI/CD.

You'll design, build, and operate the foundations that power our engineering organization, from local development to global deployments. You'll set technical direction, write and review code, and collaborate across teams to make it effortless for developers to build, test, and ship quickly. Excellence means Cursor engineers feel like they're working in the best development environment in the world, one so effective that parts of it could eventually become external features of Cursor itself.

Example projects include...

• Building a multi-platform development environment that works seamlessly across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

• Designing and maintaining CI/CD systems: merge queues, build caching, flaky test quarantine, observability, and safe rollout pipelines.

• Automating developer machine provisioning, from laptop setup and reset automation to interview and onboarding workflows.

• Partnering with backend and infrastructure teams to ensure local testing and debugging "just work", with full parity between development and CI environments.

• Hiring and growing the team: sourcing, interviewing, and closing top talent, while developing your engineers through coaching, mentorship, and high-leverage project assignments.

You may be a fit if

• You have experience leading developer productivity, platform, or infrastructure engineering teams, while remaining hands-on.

• You regularly write and review code, and enjoy improving build systems, scripting CI pipelines, and refining developer tooling.

• You have built and maintained tooling or infrastructure for large-scale or multi-language codebases.

• You care about developer velocity, reliability, and maintainability, and approach these with sound technical judgment.

• You are energized by improving feedback loops, and making development feel effortless, fast, and enjoyable.

Applying

If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 2-3 interviews. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.

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