2 min lesson
The POV that separates a builder from a gatekeeper
Choose the best answer to "Which behavior most directly demonstrates the builder-first, developer-empathy value Cursor screens for in a security hire?" Then say what led you there.
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The POV that separates a builder from a gatekeeper
A security FDE at Cursor frames the whole job around a deliberately contrarian take: he rejects the slogan that security is everybody's job. The biggest gift a great security team gives the org is to handle the problems so everyone else can keep their head down. Most issues get caught by the tools and processes people already use, no new friction added, with a relationship good enough that engineers come ask when they're unsure. Carrying that POV into the room reads as the builder-not-gatekeeper instinct the panel screens hardest for.
Scaling that with agents means putting the work through self-validation loops and surfacing findings early, like a security BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. that flags an impactful change, so security engages at the right moment to explain the impact rather than block at the end. It's a careful watching eye on every single change, far more than a small team could ever do by hand. The team also patches its own bugs: they read the software, decide whether a new vuln is actually impactful and ship the fix themselves.
"A lot of security teams want everybody to understand security is everybody's job. I don't feel that way at all. The biggest gift that we can give our org is actually handling security problems as much as possible so that everybody else can focus on what they do."