Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
SunoBoston, Mass, USposted 5d ago
- PayUSD / yr
- $229k – 364k
- Where
- Boston, Mass, US
- Posted
- Oct 30
- 5 days ago
- Type
- Full-time
- Setup
- On-site
At a glance
Build and scale the streaming, batch, and feature infrastructure powering Suno’s personalized music recommendations. Own core data systems end to end while enabling reliable ML training, low-latency inference, and rapid experimentation.
Summarized by AI from the original posting
What you'll do
- Build and scale data infrastructure for personalized recommendations and music discovery
- Design streaming pipelines for recommendation-model features
- Develop offline training and online inference feature infrastructure
- Enable recommendation experimentation through impression and interaction logging
- Own streaming and batch infrastructure architecture and reliability
- Build data workflows and orchestration with Dagster
- Define event schemas, data contracts, and ingestion patterns
- Improve pipeline monitoring, alerting, lineage, and recovery
- Optimize AWS and Snowflake pipelines and storage
- Implement infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Lead technical design discussions and shape data-platform architecture
- Mentor engineers and improve engineering quality
Requirements
- 01Strong programming skills, preferably in Python
- 02Experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems
- 03Deep experience with real-time streaming and batch processing systems
- 04Experience with data or serving infrastructure for recommendations, personalization, search, or similar ML-powered products
- 05Ability to collaborate with ML, data, and product engineering teams
- 06Track record of delivering scalable infrastructure and improving engineering practices
- 07US work authorization
Perks
Skills
Full description
We're building the world's first creative entertainment platform, where the entire world can feel the joy and fulfillment of making music. 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.
Building 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.
Suno 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).
About the RoleSuno is growing fast, and we’re hiring Staff and Senior Software Engineers to build and scale the foundational systems that power our data platform and personalized recommendations. You’ll design and operate infrastructure that ingests, processes, and serves PBs of data, helping connect listeners with music they love while supporting analytics, experimentation, and machine learning across the company.
This is a high-impact, senior role at the intersection of Data Infrastructure and ML. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Data, and ML teams to build the pipelines, feature infrastructure, and low-latency data services that power recommendations and music discovery. Your work will help turn user interactions and content signals into reliable, fresh data for model training and real-time personalization.
As Suno grows, you’ll help define the long-term architecture of our data platform, balancing scalability, reliability, latency, and cost. You’ll build systems that are observable and easy to extend, enabling teams to experiment quickly and improve how people discover and engage with music. You’ll own major systems end to end, from design through production operation, and drive architecture and technical direction across teams.
Check out the Suno version of this role here: https://suno.com/s/yt9eiMi9aj0rmGX6
Build and scale the data infrastructure behind personalized recommendations and music discovery, working closely with ML and product engineers.
Design streaming pipelines that transform user interactions and content signals into fresh features for recommendation models.
Develop infrastructure for computing, storing, and serving features across offline model training and online inference, with attention to consistency, reliability, and latency.
Enable recommendation experimentation through reliable impression and interaction logging, supporting model evaluation and measurement of recommendation quality.
Own the architecture and reliability of core streaming and batch infrastructure, using technologies such as Kinesis, Firehose, Lambda, S3, Flink, and Glue.
Build and maintain data workflows and orchestration using Dagster, ensuring pipelines are modular, testable, and observable.
Partner with backend and product engineers to define event schemas, data contracts, and ingestion patterns from production systems.
Improve the reliability and observability of data pipelines through monitoring, alerting, lineage tracking, and automated recovery mechanisms.
Optimize pipelines and storage for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability across AWS and Snowflake.
Implement infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) to manage AWS and Snowflake resources in a consistent, reproducible way.
Contribute to data platform standards, including schema evolution, data quality enforcement, and pipeline reliability best practices.
Lead technical design discussions and help shape the future architecture of Suno’s data platform.
Mentor other engineers and raise the bar for engineering quality, reliability, and maintainability.
7+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, data infrastructure, or distributed systems.
Strong programming skills, preferably in Python, and experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems.
Deep experience building and operating real-time streaming and batch processing systems.
Experience building data or serving infrastructure for recommendations, personalization, search, or similar ML-powered product experiences.
Understanding of feature computation, online/offline data consistency, and the latency and freshness requirements of production ML systems.
Experience with streaming and cloud data infrastructure, such as Flink, Kinesis, Kafka, or equivalent technologies.
Experience designing reliable, observable systems, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and recovery.
Strong understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality.
Ability to collaborate closely with ML, data, and product engineering teams, make pragmatic technical decisions, and deliver in ambiguous environments.
A strong sense of ownership, with a track record of delivering scalable infrastructure and improving engineering practices.
Excitement about music, creativity, and AI, and the infrastructure that helps people create and discover music.
Nice to HaveExperience with AWS services such as Kinesis, Firehose, Lambda, S3, and Glue.
Experience with Snowflake or a similar cloud data warehouse, including performance and cost optimization.
Experience with Dagster, Airflow, or similar orchestration frameworks.
Experience with dbt for transformations, testing, and modular data modeling.
Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
Additional Notes
Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
This role requires working from our Cambridge, MA or New York, NY office five days per week.
Compensation
The annual salary range for this role is $228,960 - 363,510 + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k)
Perks & Benefits for Full-Time EmployeesCompany 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)
Suno is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the Massachusetts Fair Chance in Employment Act, NYC Fair Chance Act, LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Compensation: $228,960 - $363,510