2 min lesson
What this role is (and isn't)
Answer "Which framing best captures how a strong candidate should position the founding Data Platform Engineer role at Cursor?" Then point to the lesson detail behind your choice.
Step 1 of 2
You would be one of Cursor's first Data Platform Engineers. There is no mature platform to inherit - there is a Databricks account, a flood of product telemetry and a fast-growing data team waiting on primitives you have not built yet.
Read this section as the role contract. The diagram or table names the surface area, but the interview signal is whether you can turn it into a clear operating claim: what you own, what you do not own, what evidence proves the work is working and where judgment matters.
Most data platform jobs hand you a running system to keep alive. This one hands you a blank lakehouse and asks you to define how an entire company's data flows. The interview is built to find out whether you can operate without scaffolding, so the first thing to internalize is what you actually own.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
Bottom-up: the substrate you build, the consumers who build on it. Step through each layer.