Staff Software Engineer, Bots + Fraud

The role

You will lead backend engineering for defenses against abuse, fraud, and bots. You will build real-time services including rate limiters, challenge flows, and rules engines.

What you will do

• Design and build backend services for real-time abuse, fraud, and bot defense
• Deploy defenses from the edge to product services
• Build logging and metrics for detection and enforcement
• Protect high-value flows like signup, login, payments, and song generation
• Shape the Bots and Fraud team architecture, roadmap, and on-call practices
• Raise the engineering bar for the team

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of backend development on distributed systems
• 3+ years of experience in trust and safety, anti-abuse, or fraud prevention
• 3+ years of technical leadership across a team

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3), Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Valkey/Redis
• Experience detecting and stopping automated abuse of public APIs through request telemetry, rate limiting, and challenges
• Experience building or running payments fraud and chargeback systems
• A track record of using AI to change how a team builds and operates

Benefits

• 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)

Before you apply

• Applicants must be eligible to work in the US

About the company

Suno is the fastest growing consumer entertainment company and the leader in AI music. They are building a creative entertainment platform for making music.