Staff Software Engineer, Bots + Fraud
About The Position
As a Staff Software Engineer on Suno’s new Bots & Fraud team, you will help lead backend engineering for defenses against abuse, fraud, and bots. You will build real-time services that turn request telemetry, behavioral signals, and device and app attestation into enforcement—including rate limits, challenges, and account actions—across layers from the edge to product services. The team is new and brings together work from across the company, giving you the opportunity to shape both what the team builds and how it works. This role reports to the Bots & Fraud Engineering Manager. The position is expected to work from the designated Suno office five days a week. Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Requirements
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience.
- 5 or more years of backend development experience on distributed systems.
- 3 or more years of experience in trust and safety, anti-abuse, or fraud prevention.
- 3 or more years of technical leadership across a team.
- Must be eligible to work in the US.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and S3), Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Valkey/Redis.
- Experience detecting and stopping automated abuse of public APIs using request telemetry, rate limiting, and challenges.
- Experience building or running payments fraud and chargeback systems, in-house or on third-party risk platforms.
- A track record of using AI to change how a team builds and operates, from development workflows to on-call and investigations.
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services for real-time abuse, fraud, and bot defense, including rate limiters, challenge flows (CAPTCHA, proof-of-work, and 2FA), rules engines, and account enforcement APIs.
- Deploy defenses from the edge to product services, ensuring detection and enforcement are easy to roll back, auditable, and low-friction for legitimate users.
- Build logging and metrics to show what is getting through, what is blocked, and the false-positive rate.
- Protect signup, login, payments, and song generation from account farming, credential stuffing, card testing, and credit abuse.
- Shape the new Bots and Fraud team's architecture, roadmap, and on-call practices.
- Raise the engineering bar for colleagues.
- Help protect Suno users and keep the platform a place where anyone can make music.
Benefits
- Company equity package.
- 401(k) with 3% employer match and Roth 401(k).
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with PPO, HSA, and FSA options.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Unlimited PTO and sick time.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Creative education stipend.
- Generous commuter allowance.
- In-office lunch five days per week.
- Comprehensive benefits for full-time employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
