Suno — Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Product Teams

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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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Official site	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/suno/adb5c5ef-5897-4acb-8014-0a7f162742d8 ↗
Geography	United States
job board posting id	adb5c5ef-5897-4acb-8014-0a7f162742d8
team	Engineering
location	NYC
seniority	staff_or_principal
department	Engineering
exact title	Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Product Teams
role family	software_engineering
closing date	unknown
compensation	raw: $220K – $280K · period: year · maximum: 280000 · minimum: 220000 · currency: USD · disclosed: true · parse state: parsed
posting date	2024-04-23
employer name	Suno
posting status	active
workplace type	on-site
employment type	full-time
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
selection basis	official_current_board_freshness_or_domain_critical_role
employer subtype	generative_music_company
preferred skills	unknown
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
work authorization	Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
education requirements	unknown