Software Engineer, Grok Connectors

Cursor
Palo Alto, CA
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level engineers with experience in API integrations and enterprise systems who enjoy solving complex reliability challenges and working in a collaborative, flat team structure.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with strong API integration experience and a passion for enterprise-level reliability and security.
    — “building the integrations that let Grok, Cursor and Grok Bot do real work inside the tools people use every day”
  • Individuals who thrive in small, talent-dense teams and are comfortable with end-to-end feature development.
    — “our team is small and talent dense”
  • Engineers who are data-driven and prioritize root-cause resolution in system reliability.
    — “you fix root causes, not symptoms”
  • Candidates with a background in enterprise security and compliance, especially with large financial institutions.
    — “compliance reviews with large financial institutions”

Things to consider

  • The role demands direct customer and partner engagement, which may require strong communication and problem-solving skills.
    — “you enjoy working with customers, partners, QA, and support”
  • Candidates must be prepared to work across both backend and frontend systems in a large codebase.
    — “you're strong in TypeScript and comfortable shipping across backend services and client UI in a large codebase”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with OAuth 2.0 and large provider APIs in your resume and interview responses.
    — “deep, practical knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC and of large provider APIs”
  • Showcase your ability to architect and deploy features end to end with measurable impact.
    — “architect, implement, and deploy features end to end”
  • Emphasize your data-driven approach to system reliability and error rate analysis.
    — “you size user impact from logs and metrics, and you measure error rates before and after every fix”
  • Demonstrate experience with enterprise security frameworks like Entra Conditional Access and ZDR.
    — “enterprise security and compliance (ZDR, audit logs, Conditional Access)”
  • Include examples of working with third-party plugins or building complex approval flows in your application materials.
    — “approval cards so an agent never sends an email without the user's sign-off”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • successful deployment of connectors
  • reliable and secure integrations
  • positive user feedback
Typical background
software engineeringAPI developmentreliability engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

TypeScriptOauth 2.0OIDCAPI IntegrationReliability Engineering

Preferred

RustKubernetesMulti-cloud DeploymentsEnterprise Security

Stack & domain

TypeScriptOauth 2.0OIDCGoogle WorkspaceMicrosoft GraphRustKubernetesMulti-cloud DeploymentsEnterprise SecurityLLM AgentsProblem-solvingTeamworkCommunicationAttention To DetailCustomer ServiceSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingAI

About the role

Original posting from Cursor via Ashby

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

As a Product Engineer on the Grok Connectors team at SpaceXAI, you'll build the integrations that let Grok, Cursor and Grok Bot do real work inside the tools people use every day: Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar and Drive, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint, GitHub, Slack, finance accounts, and a fast-growing marketplace of third-party MCP plugins. You'll architect, implement, and deploy features end to end, from OAuth sign-in and token handling, to tool schemas and reliability across hundreds of millions of tool calls, to the cards and approval flows users see on web, desktop, and mobile. You'll work directly with enterprise customers and partners to ship connectors that large organizations can trust.

YOU MAY BE A FIT IF

  • You have an entrepreneurial spirit and love creating outsized business impact.
  • You want AI agents to be genuinely useful, by connecting them to real data and real actions safely.
  • You have deep, practical knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC and of large provider APIs like Google Workspace and Microsoft Graph, or you're excited to become the expert.
  • You care about reliability: concurrency, retries, rate limits, and observability. You fix root causes, not symptoms.
  • You let data decide what to work on. You size user impact from logs and metrics, and you measure error rates before and after every fix.
  • You're strong in TypeScript and comfortable shipping across backend services and client UI in a large codebase.
  • You enjoy working with customers, partners, QA, and support, and can answer a security review question as clearly as you can fix a bug.
  • Bonus: experience with the MCP protocol, Rust, Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments, enterprise security and compliance (ZDR, audit logs, Conditional Access), or building LLM agents for automation.

SAMPLE PROJECTS INCLUDE

  • Building an automated triage system that pulls user reports from feedback channels, groups them by root cause with user-impact estimates, files issues, and starts a first-pass coding agent on each fix
  • Redesigning OAuth token refresh so concurrent requests never burn a single-use refresh token and mark a working connector as disconnected
  • Cutting hundreds of thousands of daily tool-call errors by generating tool definitions from vendors' published API specs, fixing argument mapping, and adding batch tools
  • Shipping Gmail and Outlook draft, reply, and attachment flows, with approval cards so an agent never sends an email without the user's sign-off
  • Launching new partner connectors, from debugging a partner's OAuth metadata to rollout and adoption metrics
  • Making connectors work for enterprise and single-tenant deployments: custom certificate authorities, Entra Conditional Access, admin controls, and compliance reviews with large financial institutions

APPLYING

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.

Source: Cursor careers (Ashby)

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