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Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Platform Teams

Suno

Boston, MA · full time · Senior

$228,960 – $363,510

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What this role is

Suno is seeking a Staff or Senior engineer to build foundational platform systems serving 70+ engineers across infrastructure, deployment tooling, and AI-native workflows. The role demands ownership of complex distributed systems at scale, with deep responsibility for how the entire company ships products quickly and reliably.

Our summary, not Suno’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 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 and cloud services
  • Ability to reason through scaling, reliability, and performance problems
  • End-to-end system ownership from design through deployment and operations
  • Technical leadership experience

Nice to have

  • Experience building internal systems 0→1
  • WebSockets and streaming traffic patterns
  • Audio/video delivery experience
  • Backend API design patterns at scale
  • Platform or developer experience team background
  • System migration management with dependent teams
  • Security best practices knowledge
  • Hands-on familiarity with AI for software engineering and agentic workflows
  • Agent orchestration or tool calling experience
  • Streaming or realtime protocol production experience
  • Mobile API design for iOS and Android
  • Instrumentation and observability practices before launch
  • Active mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers
  • Product instincts and abstraction design
  • Oncall and incident triage experience
  • Music listening or musician background

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