Infrastructure-as-code, done right

The job description says it plainly: codify everything as reproducible infrastructure-as-code. In the loop, that line becomes a question - could a new hire rebuild your production network from an empty AWS account using only what's in git?

At Cursor's scale, IaCInfrastructure as Code. Managing servers and cloud resources through version-controlled config files (e.g. Terraform). Press Enter for the full definition. is the substrate every other answer in this module rests on. You can't attribute cost to a resource you provisioned by hand and you can't unify a platform whose clusters were each clicked together in the console. So the interviewer is rarely asking whether you've used Terraform. They want to see whether your IaC is the source of truth or just a record of what someone hoped the infrastructure looked like.