Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Suno
Artists & Creators
$228-363k
+ Equity
More information about location
AI music generator
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AI music generator
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$228-363k
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a revolutionary creative platform powered by the world's best music model to bring the joy of musical expression to everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5–10 years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated hunger to stay close to the code and the end user
- An ownership mentality — you enjoy taking a large, ambiguous product space and running with it end-to-end
- Startup experience shipping quickly in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
- Strong API design skills, having worked closely with iOS/Android or other mobile teams
- A flexible set of communication styles — you reduce entropy rather than create it, pride yourself on your ability to write, as well as facilitate live discussions with stakeholders ranging in level of technical expertise
- Experience working with modern agentic coding workflows, including E2E testing harnesses, reusable skills, and defining clear success criteria
- Enthusiasm for rapid learning, regardless of whether technology and tools are brand new or legacy
- A preference for deeply collaborative environments
- Experience with a few of the following:
- Experience building systems that ingest data from 20+ sources, normalize it, score or weight it by source reliability, apply survivorship rules, and store a canonical record
- Strong SQL and NoSQL experience
- Strong data modeling and system architecture skills at scale
- Tuning Web, Android, and/or iOS performance metrics with a healthy fear of red numbers
- Building out a design system to accelerate development whilst keeping a consistent feel
- Experience retrofitting design systems
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments — you don't need everything mapped out to move forward
- Bring low ego and high versatility, equally at ease debugging a small fix or driving a major project
- Get energy from rapid prototyping and iteration — you'd rather ship something rough and refine it than wait for perfect
- Have a genuine passion for music and live events, and want that passion reflected in your work
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with React Native and/or Ruby on Rails
- Experience building or maintaining email or push notification systems
What the job involves
- Suno is standing up an Artists & Creators pod, and our first major focus is Songkick.com — our newly acquired live music and ticketing product
- We're hiring an early team to take technical ownership of Songkick within Suno across the stack: the backend, the website, the mobile app, the data pipelines, and the notification systems that power it
- You'll report to the Songkick Engineering Manager and work closely with the Songkick General Manager, our Product Manager, and our Music teams to help define how this team tracks success and grows
- Early on, the work is hands-on and diverse — understanding the existing system deeply, stabilizing it, and finding the integration points that make Songkick and Suno stronger together
- Over time, this role has real influence over the roadmap, engineering best practices, and leaving a handprint on Suno's Artists & Creators engineering team
- Own part of the Songkick product end-to-end, wherever you’re strongest — from backend, mobile app (React Native, iOS + Android), data pipelines, and notifications
- Lead the technical integration of Songkick into Suno, partnering with the Songkick Engineering Manager, Product Manager, incoming General Manager, and our existing engineering team to identify what to build next
- Architect and maintain data aggregation systems that ingest, normalize, and score touring and event data from dozens of sources into a single canonical record
- Assess a large, established codebase and make clear-eyed calls about what to preserve, modernize, or retire
- Design APIs consumed by mobile clients, working directly with the teams building on top of them
- Extend Suno's mission of making creative fulfillment a daily reality into how fans discover and experience live music
Our take
Suno is a company leveraging AI for music creation, attempting to make it accessible to everyone, regardless of their musical background. The platform allows users to generate complete songs by inputting text prompts, breaking down the barriers that traditionally separate amateurs from professional musicians.
Unlike other AI music tools, Suno focuses on ease-of-use, enabling even those with no music theory knowledge to produce professional-sounding songs. This approach has already attracted a diverse user base, including everyday people and GRAMMY-winning artists.
Whether the vision sits comfortably with the wider music community is another matter. For many, AI-generated music still raises ethical questions around ownership and the value of human artistry. But with investors continuing to back Suno with hundreds of millions of dollars, it's clear they believe AI music is here to stay.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2026
$400m
SERIES D
Nov 2025
$250m
SERIES C
Total funding: $775m
Company 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.
- Lunch Program: Suno offers free lunch 5 days a week in each of our office locations.
- Commuter Benefit: Generous monthly stipend for commuting expenses.
- 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.
Company HQ
Mid-Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Leadership
Mikey Shulman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Mikey is currently a Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, a role they have held since 2018. Previously, they were the Head of Machine Learning at Kensho Technologies.
Georg Kucsko
(Co-Founder & CTO)Georg previously worked at MIT Sloan School of Management at a Lecturer. They also served as the Head of AI Research at Kensho Technologies.
Martin Camacho
(Co-Founder & President)Prior to co-founding Suno in 2022, Martin was the Head of Engineering at Firefly Health. Before that, they were the first employee at Kensho Technologies, spending nearly 6 years there as a Chief Architect and Board Director.
Keenan Freyberg
(Co-Founder & COO)Keenan is also the co-founder of Lakehold where they serve as a General Partner. Previously, they spent nearly 4 years at Kensho Technologies working in Client Operations, Product Management and Strategic Initiatives. They also worked at Capco as an Associate and at Pinshape as a Business Developer.
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