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Music is for everyone: Our users include everyone from grandmothers creating songs for their loved ones, to Grammy winners using Suno Studio, our power tool, to make the most popular hits in the world.\nBuilding the future of entertainment requires ambition. The pace is fast, the problems are hard, and the work demands ownership and intensity. For the right people, it’s incredibly rewarding: a chance to shape a new medium, work with a small team that cares deeply about quality, make music, drink too much coffee, and build something that millions of people use to express themselves in ways that were never before possible.\nSuno is the fastest growing consumer entertainment company and the leader in AI music. We are backed by leading investors including Bond Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon, Quiet, Matrix Partners, Schroders Capital and, NVentures (venture arm of NVIDIA).\nAbout the Role\nSuno 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.\nYou’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.\nCheck out our Suno version of the job here: https://suno.com/s/OOxz00UgGKVmC3gY\nWhat You’ll Do\nRegardless of team, you’ll:\nOwn products and systems end-to-end - from scoping what to build, to shipping, to monitoring and iterating post-launch\n\nBuild backend and full-stack systems that serve millions of users with high performance and reliability\n\nDesign clean, scalable APIs consumed by web, iOS, and Android clients\n\nCollaborate closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and peer engineering teams\n\nRun experiments, instrument metrics, and make data-informed decisions about what to build next\n\nCommunicate proactively and with high bandwidth - concise & information-dense async updates, stakeholder alignment, low entropy\n\nRaise the technical bar through code quality, architectural thinking, crisp abstractions, and mentorship\n\nAreas You Could Work On\nWe’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:\nBuilding and optimizing content feeds, playback systems, and discovery experiences that make listening on Suno feel instant and personalized\n\nCreating 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\n\nDeveloping 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.\n\nPartnering with recommendation systems to make content more personalized and relevant over time\n\nDesigning mobile-first APIs and working hand-in-hand with iOS and Android engineers\n\nReducing inference costs and latency for AI-generated content at consumer scale\n\nWhat You’ll Need\nRequired\n5-7+ years of software engineering experience\n\nBackend or full-stack experience building consumer products at scale\n\nStrong API design skills - you’ve built APIs consumed by multiple client teams and have opinions about how they should work\n\nA generalist, get-it-done attitude paired with genuine technical depth in at least one area\n\nComfort with high ambiguity - you can scope what matters, make tradeoffs, and drive forward without a fully defined spec\n\nExcellent communication skills - your written updates are clear and dense, and you collaborate well across teams\n\nProduct intuition - you think about the end user in addition to the system\n\nStrong Plusses (one or more of the following)\nExperience with feed architecture, recommendation systems, content ranking, or search/retrieval at scale\n\nExperience shipping social product features (follow graphs, notifications, engagement systems, publishing flows) at a consumer company\n\nPower user of social media with genuine intuition for why engagement mechanics work (familiar with network effects, NFX literature, creator dynamics)\n\nHands-on experience with AI image and/or video model inference - diffusion models, token-based inputs, LoRA tuning, inference optimization\n\nFull-stack capability including modern frontend (React, TypeScript, NextJS)\n\nMobile-first API design experience working directly with iOS/Android teams\n\nExperience building 0→1 products and existing on existing products in a startup environment\n\nWeb experience with Python, Django, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis\n\nTechnical leadership experience\n\nA love of music, whether you’re an avid listener or musician yourself\n\nAdditional Notes\nThis role is based in New York City.\n\nApplicants must be eligible to work in the US.\n\nCompensation\nThe annual salary range for this role is $228K - $363K + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k)\nPerks & Benefits for Full-Time Employees\nCompany Equity Package\n\n401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)\n\nMedical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options)\n\n11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time\n\n16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave\n\nCreative Education Stipend\n\nGenerous Commuter Allowance\n\nIn-Office Lunch (5 days per week)\n\nSuno is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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