Suno — Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Platform Teams

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Official active full-time posting for Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Platform Teams at Suno, located in Boston.

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Official site	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/suno/9e6da9b6-8562-4d9e-ae8e-c3319f76bdba ↗
Geography	United States
job board posting id	9e6da9b6-8562-4d9e-ae8e-c3319f76bdba
team	Engineering
location	Boston
seniority	staff_or_principal
department	Engineering
exact title	Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Platform Teams
role family	software_engineering
closing date	unknown
compensation	disclosed: false · parse state: not_publicly_disclosed
posting date	2024-04-23
employer name	Suno
posting status	active
workplace type	on-site
employment type	full-time
required skills	To succeed on one of Suno’s platform teams, your experience and skill set might resemble a cross section of the following:; 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; Experience building or operating agent orchestration, tool calling, or streaming LLM generation systems; Experience building a streaming or realtime protocol in production — streaming generation, chat/turn-based UI, or live progress feeds; Shipped APIs consumed by iOS and Android clients in production; mobile-friendly API design is second nature; Observability is part of how you ship — you instrument before launch, not after; Mentorship experience — you’ve actively developed junior or mid-level engineers, not just worked alongside them; 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
selection basis	official_current_board_freshness_or_domain_critical_role
employer subtype	generative_music_company
preferred skills	unknown
responsibilities	Check out the Suno version of the job here: https://suno.com/s/3NcdjuEOnlHGMoBt; On one of Suno’s platform teams, you’ll work on a subset of the complex challenges outlined below:; 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; Build the foundational infrastructure for next-generation song creation: a multi-modal music agent, a create platform that powers multiple song creation products, and a realtime API enabling live generation and radio experiences; 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
work authorization	Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
education requirements	unknown