Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Platform Teams

The role

Staff and Senior Software Engineers will work on platform teams to build foundational systems at scale. This includes infrastructure, platform, and leverage teams that support products, internal processes, and AI-native tools.

What you will do

• Build platforms for engineers including APIs, authentication, and deployment tooling
• Manage migrations from legacy systems
• Collaborate with engineering teams to build abstractions
• Build shared infrastructure and agentic tooling for AI-native development
• Define best practices, frameworks, and evaluation systems
• Architect and build services for write-heavy consumer traffic and data
• Design performant, secure, scalable, and observable systems
• Build and operate distributed databases, caching layers, and storage systems
• Scale Kubernetes infrastructure and control planes
• Design inference infrastructure for AI workloads

Required qualifications

• 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, cloud services (AWS/GCP), and modern infrastructure patterns
• Expertise in infrastructure and platform security best practices
• Ability to reason through hard scaling, reliability, and performance problems
• Technical leadership or management experience
• Experience building internal systems 0→1
• Experience with websockets, streaming traffic patterns, and audio/video delivery
• Familiarity with backend API design patterns at scale
• Experience on a platform or developer experience team
• Ability to manage system migrations with multiple dependent engineering teams
• Working knowledge of security best practices in building and scaling infrastructure

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 where users can make music.