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Suno

Senior / Staff AI Platform Engineer

Suno is hiring a Senior / Staff AI Platform Engineer in San Francisco, United States. It pays $228k-$363k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Suno.

Level's read on this job

  • Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this role: the job is building AI systems.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include backend, platform engineering and apis.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 70 other open roles at Suno.
  • The role was posted within the past week.

AI in this role

Build core AI platform APIs, SDKs, and evaluation infrastructure for AI agent features at Suno.

backendplatform-engineeringapisobservabilityeval-infrastructure
About Suno

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 Role

Suno's song creation agent is becoming something other teams build on. As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, you'll build the APIs, SDKs and shared tooling, including eval infrastructure, tracing and model routing, that let engineers across Suno ship agent features faster. You'll work closely with the agent team, partner teams and Infra, and your customers are other engineers, so adoption is a measure of success. You'll help shape the platform as it grows.
Listen to the song we made about it: https://suno.com/s/bxgQXsn06Vz3KKEn

What You'll Do
  • Design and build the platform APIs and SDKs that other teams use to build agent features.

  • Develop shared eval infrastructure, including the eval runner, results storage and dashboards, and help the team decide what to build and what to buy.

  • Implement end-to-end tracing and observability, so any request can be followed across services from prompt to audio.

  • Manage model provider routing, fallback, rate limits and cost controls.

  • Partner with engineering teams across Suno to onboard them onto the platform with docs and hands-on support, and with Infra on the reliability and scale of the agent runtime.

  • Help more people turn ideas into music by making it faster and safer for teams across Suno to ship agent features.

What You'll Need

Must-Haves

  • 4–6 years building and scaling backend or platform systems in production, in any language.

  • Experience on a team that supports other developer teams, including building a platform, API or SDK that other teams adopted.

  • Experience with production LLM or agent systems, for external or internal users.

  • Depth in distributed systems and observability, including tracing across services.

  • Comfort working with internal customers: scoping with partner teams, earning adoption and handling ambiguity.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience building an eval or tracing product.

  • Experience running LLM gateway or model routing infrastructure.

  • Experience writing SDKs that other teams use.

  • Experience with Python backends.

Work Location Policy

This role is expected to work from the designated Suno SF office 5 days a week, per Suno's company policy. Full-time employees will receive competitive equity packages, and comprehensive benefits. The actual base salary offered may vary depending on location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

Listen to the Suno version of this role! https://suno.com/s/bxgQXsn06Vz3KKEn

Additional Notes

Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

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)

Compensation
  • $228K- $363K

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.

How we rate this

Senior / Staff AI Platform Engineer at Suno rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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  1. Tell me about a project where backend was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where platform engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where apis was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where observability was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where eval infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?

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  • Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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