Senior / Staff Application Security Engineer, Suno
$230-330k
+Equity
AI music generator
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AI music generator
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$230-330k
+Equity
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
- 6+ years in security engineering with deep, hands-on application-security expertise
- Strong command of the vulnerability classes that cause incidents and how to eliminate them at the source — code, API, and authz design
- A builder who has stood up AppSec practices and secure-SDLC tooling, not only operated established ones
- Fluent in modern application stacks and comfortable in AWS
- Able to work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers and raise the bar without becoming a blocker
- Able to write and ship production-quality code, not only review it
- Curiosity about emerging AI/LLM threat classes and how to defend against them as the product evolves
- Nice to have: Consumer product at scale, secure-by-design work on generative-AI or ML product surfaces, and/or early security-hire experience
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the US
- This role requires working onsite at one of our three offices
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior / Staff Application Security Engineer to own the security of how our product is built
- You’ll be the person who makes sure our code, APIs, and services are secure by design — threat-modeling the product, hardening the application layer, and building the AppSec practice from the ground up
- Execute application security end to end: threat-model features and services, and drive remediation of the most significant risks
- Secure the application layer against the vulnerabilities that matter most — injection, broken authentication and authorization, and insecure APIs
- Build and run a secure SDLC: code-review guardrails, SAST/DAST, dependency and supply-chain security, secrets management, and pre-production testing
- Harden authentication, authorization, and session/identity handling across the product
- Secure the AI-specific application surface — model and inference endpoints, prompt and input handling, and the new classes of vulnerability that come with shipping generative features
- Partner with product and platform engineering to design security in early and raise the security bar across the codebase
- Set the standard for how engineering reasons about and ships secure code
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.
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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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