Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Suno
Platform Teams
$220-280k
+ Target equity
More information about location
Office located in Cambridge, MA
AI music generator
Open for applications
AI music generator
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$220-280k
+ Target equity
More information about location
Office located in Cambridge, MA
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
- 5–7+ years of infrastructure, backend, or systems engineering experience
- Experience building and operating systems at significant scale in production
- 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
- Technical leadership or management experience
- Experience building internal systems 0→1 — auth, notifications, CDN, or similar
- 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
- Experience on a platform or developer experience team where your primary customers were other engineers
- Ability to manage system migrations with multiple dependent engineering teams
- A working knowledge of security best practices in building and scaling infrastructure
- 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 product instincts — you synthesize user needs and build the right abstraction
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces
- High ownership — you drive projects end-to-end without waiting for direction
- Strong communication skills — you keep stakeholders informed and reduce ambiguity for the teams you serve
- Strong written communication — patient and educator-minded when rolling out tools that change how people work
- Strong oncall instincts — triage, debug, and resolve incidents across a distributed stack
- A love of music, whether you’re an avid listener or musician yourself
What the job involves
- 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
Application process
- 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
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
Insights
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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