Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Suno
$220-280k
+ Target equity
More information about location
AI music generation tools
Open for applications
AI music generation tools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$220-280k
+ Target equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build a future where anyone can make music.
Role
Who you are
- 5-7+ years of software engineering experience
- Backend or full-stack experience building consumer products at scale
- Strong API design skills — you’ve built APIs consumed by multiple client teams and have opinions about how they should work
- A generalist, get-it-done attitude paired with genuine technical depth in at least one area
- Comfort with high ambiguity — you can scope what matters, make tradeoffs, and drive forward without a fully defined spec
- Excellent communication skills — your written updates are clear and dense, and you collaborate well across teams
- Product intuition — you think about the end user in addition to the system
Desirable
- Experience with feed architecture, recommendation systems, content ranking, or search/retrieval at scale
- Experience shipping social product features (follow graphs, notifications, engagement systems, publishing flows) at a consumer company
- Power user of social media with genuine intuition for why engagement mechanics work (familiar with network effects, NFX literature, creator dynamics)
- Hands-on experience with AI image and/or video model inference — diffusion models, token-based inputs, LoRA tuning, inference optimization
- Full-stack capability including modern frontend (React, TypeScript, NextJS)
- Mobile-first API design experience working directly with iOS/Android teams
- Experience building 0→1 products and existing on existing products in a startup environment
- Web experience with Python, Django, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis
- Technical leadership experience
- A love of music, whether you’re an avid listener or musician yourself
What the job involves
- Suno is growing fast, and we’re hiring Staff and Senior Software Engineers to work on the products that define how people experience music on our platform
- We have multiple teams tackling different dimensions of this challenge — from how content reaches users, to how users connect with each other, to how AI gives music a visual identity
- 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
- What all of these teams share: they’re building consumer-facing products at scale, they own their systems end-to-end, and they thrive on rapidly turning ambiguous problems into world class production-grade products
- They have a nose for impact, and take on work from the 2-character performance fixes all the way through introducing brand new company-wide products, directly driving Suno’s top-line company goals
- Own products and systems end-to-end — from scoping what to build, to shipping, to monitoring and iterating post-launch
- Build backend and full-stack systems that serve millions of users with high performance and reliability
- Design clean, scalable APIs consumed by web, iOS, and Android clients
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and peer engineering teams
- Run experiments, instrument metrics, and make data-informed decisions about what to build next
- Communicate proactively and with high bandwidth — concise & information-dense async updates, stakeholder alignment, low entropy
- Raise the technical bar through code quality, architectural thinking, crisp abstractions, and mentorship
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.
Suno' rise has been fast and impressive, but it's now facing serious legal heat, including new lawsuits from independent artists. If it can defend its practices ad show respect for creators' rights, there's still a strong future ahead for the company.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2025
$250m
SERIES C
May 2024
$125m
SERIES B
Total funding: $375m
Company HQ
Mid-Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Leadership
Mikey Shulman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as Head of Machine Learning at Kensho Technologies. Also worked as a Lecturer for the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Georg Kucsko
(Co-Founder & CTO)Also works as a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior work includes Head of AI Research at Kensho Technologies.
Martin Camacho
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as Engineering Director at Firefly Health and Chief Architect and Board Director at Kensho Technologies.
Keenan Freyberg
(Co-Founder & COO)Worked in Business Devlopment at Pinshape, and as an Associate at Capco. Also worked through several roles at Kensho Technologies.
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