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Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Platform Teams

Suno· Engineering
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Boston$229k - $363.5kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff and Senior Software Engineers to work on Suno’s Platform Teams (Infrastructure, Platform, and Leverage) building foundational systems at scale to support product development, AI-native tooling, and next-generation song creation.

Responsibilities

  • Build the platforms that 70+ engineers depend on to ship product quickly and safely — APIs, authentication, deployment tooling, backend-driven configuration, and similar
  • Manage migrations that help teams transition off legacy systems seamlessly and without risk
  • Collaborate with engineering teams across the company to understand their needs and build the right abstractions
  • Build shared infrastructure, agentic tooling, and workflows that enable AI-native development across the company
  • Define best practices, frameworks, and evaluation systems for how Suno uses tooling in daily work
  • Partner closely with engineering and non-engineering teams to understand their needs and build the right solutions
  • Architect and build services to handle write-heavy consumer traffic and data
  • Design systems that are performant, secure, scalable, and easy to observe
  • Build and operate distributed databases, caching layers, and storage systems at consumer scale
  • Scale Kubernetes infrastructure and control planes to support rapid product and ML growth
  • Design inference infrastructure that keeps AI workloads fast, reliable, and cost-efficient
  • Build the foundational infrastructure for next-generation song creation: a multi-modal music agent, a create platform that powers multiple song creation products, and a realtime API enabling live generation and radio experiences
  • Operate with ambiguity — scope what matters, move fast, and drive projects forward independently as the space evolves
  • Own systems end-to-end — from design through deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence
  • Mentor other engineers and raise the bar for engineering quality, reliability, and maintainability

Qualifications

  • 5–7+ years of infrastructure, backend, or systems engineering experience
  • Experience building and operating systems at significant scale in production
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud services (AWS/GCP), and modern infrastructure patterns
  • Expertise in infrastructure and platform security best practices
  • Ability to reason through hard scaling, reliability, and performance problems with clear technical judgment
  • Technical leadership or management experience
  • Experience building internal systems 0→1 — auth, notifications, CDN, or similar
  • Experience with websockets, streaming traffic patterns, and audio/video delivery
  • Familiarity with backend API design patterns at scale to serve internal backend, web and mobile clients alike
  • Experience on a platform or developer experience team where your primary customers were other engineers
  • Ability to manage system migrations with multiple dependent engineering teams
  • A working knowledge of security best practices in building and scaling infrastructure
  • Hands-on familiarity with the current landscape of AI for software engineering including, but not limited to: models, agents, coding assistants, and agentic workflows
  • Experience building or operating agent orchestration, tool calling, or streaming LLM generation systems
  • Experience building a streaming or realtime protocol in production — streaming generation, chat/turn-based UI, or live progress feeds
  • Shipped APIs consumed by iOS and Android clients in production; mobile-friendly API design is second nature
  • Observability is part of how you ship — you instrument before launch, not after
  • Mentorship experience — actively developed junior or mid-level engineers
  • Strong product instincts — you synthesize user needs and build the right abstraction
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces
  • High ownership — you drive projects end-to-end without waiting for direction
  • Strong communication skills — you keep stakeholders informed and reduce ambiguity for the teams you serve
  • Strong written communication
  • Strong oncall instincts — triage, debug, and resolve incidents across a distributed stack
  • A love of music, whether you’re an avid listener or musician yourself

Skills

Required:Infrastructure design and scaleDistributed systemsSecurity best practicesLeadership / mentorshipCommunication

Benefits

  • Company Equity Package
  • 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options)
  • 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time
  • 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Creative Education Stipend
  • Generous Commuter Allowance
  • In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Suno

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