Senior / Staff Application Security Engineer
Suno is hiring a Senior / Staff Application Security Engineer in Boston, United States. It pays $230k-$330k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Suno.
Level's read on this job
- Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this cybersecurity role: the job is building AI systems.
- Pay on this posting starts 44% higher than the typical cybersecurity posting on Level.
- The posting mentions Sast, Dast and application security among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Suno has 70 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Leads application security for a generative AI music platform, securing model endpoints and building security practices.
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 RoleWe’re looking for a Senior / Staff Application Security Engineer to own the security of how our product is built. You’ll be the person who makes sure our code, APIs, and services are secure by design — threat-modeling the product, hardening the application layer, and building the AppSec practice from the ground up.
Listen to the song we made about it: https://suno.com/s/Eh3xgvx2oFpT0QPq
What You’ll DoExecute application security end to end: threat-model features and services, and drive remediation of the most significant risks.
Secure the application layer against the vulnerabilities that matter most — injection, broken authentication and authorization, and insecure APIs.
Build and run a secure SDLC: code-review guardrails, SAST/DAST, dependency and supply-chain security, secrets management, and pre-production testing.
Harden authentication, authorization, and session/identity handling across the product.
Secure the AI-specific application surface — model and inference endpoints, prompt and input handling, and the new classes of vulnerability that come with shipping generative features.
Partner with product and platform engineering to design security in early and raise the security bar across the codebase.
Set the standard for how engineering reasons about and ships secure code.
6+ years in security engineering with deep, hands-on application-security expertise.
Strong command of the vulnerability classes that cause incidents and how to eliminate them at the source — code, API, and authz design.
A builder who has stood up AppSec practices and secure-SDLC tooling, not only operated established ones.
Fluent in modern application stacks and comfortable in AWS.
Able to work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers and raise the bar without becoming a blocker.
Able to write and ship production-quality code, not only review it.
Curiosity about emerging AI/LLM threat classes and how to defend against them as the product evolves.
Nice to have: Consumer product at scale, secure-by-design work on generative-AI or ML product surfaces, and/or early security-hire experience.
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)
Additional Notes:
Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
This role requires working onsite at one of our three offices.
$230,000 to 330,000
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 Application Security 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.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where application security was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where threat modeling was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where secure sdlc was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where vulnerability management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Sast in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Application Security, Threat Modeling, Secure Sdlc, Vulnerability Management, and Sast. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- 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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