Staff/Senior Software Engineer (Platform Teams)
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- We’re hiring Staff and Senior Software Engineers to work on one of the teams that powers the entire company: 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
- 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
- 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 product
- They solve hard problems with autonomy and a bias toward engineering excellence
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Retirement Match: Suno offers a Traditional 401(k) plan and Roth 401(k) plan with a 3% Safe Harbor company match.
- Medical, Dental & Vision: We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Commuter Benefit: Generous monthly stipend for commuting expenses.
- Lunch Program: Suno offers free lunch 5 days a week in each of our office locations.
- Time Off: Suno employees are provided with unlimited paid time off as well as unlimited sick days + 11 company holidays.
- Creative Education Stipend: Annual reimbursements for creative education and development.
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to both birthing and non-birthing parents.
- Experience on a platform or developer experience team where your primary customers were other engineers
- High ownership — you drive projects end-to-end without waiting for direction
- Expertise in infrastructure and platform security best practices
- Technical leadership or management experience
- 5–7+ years of infrastructure, backend, or systems engineering experience
- A love of music, whether you’re an avid listener or musician yourself
- Strong written communication — patient and educator-minded when rolling out tools that change how people work
- 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
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud services (AWS/GCP), and modern infrastructure patterns
- Strong communication skills — you keep stakeholders informed and reduce ambiguity for the teams you serve
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces
- Hands-on familiarity with the current landscape of AI for software engineering including, but not limited to: models, agents, coding assistants, and agentic workflows
- Strong oncall instincts — triage, debug, and resolve incidents across a distributed stack
- Experience building and operating systems at significant scale in production
- Strong product instincts — you synthesize user needs and build the right abstraction
- Ability to reason through hard scaling, reliability, and performance problems with clear technical judgment
- A working knowledge of security best practices in building and scaling infrastructure
- Experience building internal systems 0→1 — auth, notifications, CDN, or similar
- Ability to manage system migrations with multiple dependent engineering teams
- You’ll apply once, and 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
