About the RoleSuno 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.
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. What all of these teams share: they're building consumer-facing products at scale, they own their systems end-to-end, and they thrive on rapidly turning ambiguous problems into world class production-grade products. They have a nose for impact, and take on work from the 2-character performance fixes all the way through introducing brand new company-wide products, directly driving Suno's top-line company goals.
Check out our Suno version of the job here: https://suno.com/s/OOxz00UgGKVmC3gY
What You'll DoRegardless 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 OnWe'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
What You'll NeedRequired- 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 01 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
Additional Notes- This role is based in New York City.
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
CompensationThe annual salary range for this role is $220K - $280K + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k)
Perks & Benefits for Full-Time Employees- Company Equity Package
- 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options)
- 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time
- 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Creative Education Stipend
- Generous Commuter Allowance
- In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)
