Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Product Teams

Suno

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

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Role facts

Employer	Suno
Location	NYC
Work mode	On-site / not stated
Remote scope	unknown
Employment	full-time
Function	Engineering
Track	industry
Seniority	staff_or_principal
Compensation	220000–280000 USD / year
Posted	2024-04-23
Work authorization	Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Official posting	Open official posting ↗

Responsibilities

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.
Check out our Suno version of the job here: https://suno.com/s/OOxz00UgGKVmC3gY
Regardless of team, you’ll:
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
AREAS YOU COULD WORK ON
We’re hiring across several product areas. During the process, we’ll match you to the one that fits best. Here’s a flavor of the kinds of problems our teams are solving:
Building and optimizing content feeds, playback systems, and discovery experiences that make listening on Suno feel instant and personalized
Creating the social layer that turns Suno from a creation tool into a creative network — profiles, follow graphs, engagement notifications, publishing flows, and new social formats
Developing AI-powered visual products that give music a visual identity — generative cover art, AI music videos, and image-to-video experiences using cutting-edge inference models all the while inventing novel interface design patterns that keep the human front-and-center.
Partnering with recommendation systems to make content more personalized and relevant over time
Designing mobile-first APIs and working hand-in-hand with iOS and Android engineers
Reducing inference costs and latency for AI-generated content at consumer scale

Required skills

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
Strong Plusses (one or more of the following)
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