# Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
**Company:** [Suno](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/suno)
**Location:** Cambridge, MA
**Salary:** $220K-$280K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Pulumi, Postgres, Go, Rust, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2024-04-23
> Builds and operates scalable infrastructure systems including Kubernetes clusters, distributed databases, and cloud services to support AI music platform at consumer scale. Requires 5+ years experience in infrastructure engineering with strong ownership and scaling expertise.
## Job Description
## What You’ll Do
- Architect and build services to handle massive consumer traffic, data, and usage
- Design systems that are performant, secure, scalable, and easy to observe
- Own systems end-to-end — from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence
- Lead by example on engineering excellence — code quality, system design, documentation, and operational maturity
- Collaborate with engineering teams across the company to understand their needs and build the right abstractions
- Communicate proactively and with high bandwidth — concise and information-dense async updates, stakeholder alignment, low entropy
- Operate with ambiguity — scope what matters, make tradeoffs, and drive projects forward independently

## What You’ll Need (Required)
- 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
- Experience with some combination of: **Kubernetes**, **Docker**, infrastructure as code (**Pulumi**/**Terraform**/**CDK**), databases (**Postgres**, distributed relational databases), caching systems, or container orchestration
- Ability to reason through hard scaling, reliability, and performance problems with clear technical judgment
- High ownership — you drive projects end-to-end without waiting for direction
- Strong communication skills — you keep stakeholders informed and reduce ambiguity for the teams you serve
- An obsession with engineering excellence, iterating and learning rapidly, and working hard

## Strong Plusses
- Deep experience with **Kubernetes** at scale — cluster management, control plane scaling, multi-tenancy
- Experience with large-scale databases, distributed data layers, or storage systems
- Experience with **ML** infrastructure — inference serving, **ML** data pipelines, **MLOps**, **GPU** infrastructure
- Experience on a platform or developer experience team where your primary customers were other engineers
- Experience building internal systems 0→1 (auth, notifications, **CDN**, DevEx tooling, or similar)
- Strong oncall instincts — triage, debug, and resolve incidents across a distributed stack
- Hands-on familiarity with **AI** tooling and the current landscape of **AI** for software engineering — models, agents, coding assistants, and agentic workflows
- **Golang** or **Rust** experience, especially for large-scale systems
- Experience with websockets, **CDNs**, streaming traffic patterns, and audio/video delivery
- Security best practices in building and scaling infrastructure
- Technical leadership or management experience
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