Suno
Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Platform Teams
Boston · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- During the interview process we'll work with you to find the team that's the best mutual fit based on your background, technical strengths, and what gets you excited.
- They solve hard problems with autonomy and a bias toward engineering excellence.
- Check out the Suno version of the job here: https://suno.com/s/3NcdjuEOnlHGMoBt
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
- 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
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of infrastructure, backend, or systems engineering experience
- 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
- Experience with websockets, streaming traffic patterns, and audio/video delivery
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Compensation
- $220k-$280k
Benefits
- Company Equity Package
- 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
Company info
- Infrastructure, Platform, and Leverage These teams work on a range of complex challenges, from the lowest layers of compute, to the platforms that 70+ engineers build on daily, to the AI-native tools and workflows that catalyze how everyone at Suno works, to the core creation surface where millions of people make music.
- What all of these teams share: they're building foundational systems at scale, they own their work end-to-end, and their output directly determines how fast and how well Suno can build and ship products.
- On one of Suno's platform teams, you'll work on a subset of the complex challenges outlined below:
- Define best practices, frameworks, and evaluation systems for how Suno uses tooling in daily work
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
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