SecureBio Detection is Hiring Software Engineers

SecureBio Detection, a nonprofit building a pathogen-agnostic early-warning system, is hiring software engineers to scale its metagenomic biosurveillance network. The organization processes over 50 billion read pairs of wastewater and nasal swab data weekly and aims to reduce detection time from 12 hours to under two hours. Open roles include a Software Engineer for High-Performance Pipelines ($165,000–$190,000) and a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer ($195,000–$220,000), both based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I'm leading a non-profit team building a pathogen-agnostic early-warning system https://securebio.org/detection/ . As AI systems become increasingly capable https://securebio.org/benchmarks/ substitutes for expert human biologist expertise, the risk that someone could engineer a pathogen to spread widely before detection is going up. We've made great progress and we're now running the world's largest metagenomic biosurveillance network https://securebio.org/blog/updates-mar-2026/ , but there's still a huge amount that needs doing: we're hiring We're processing 50B read pairs of wastewater and nasal swab data each week more than anyone else and will be more than doubling this in the next year. At the same time, we need to bring our end to end time down from ~12hr to ~2hr massively parallel problem, should be possible to get <1hr . This means we're looking for people who know how to build and scale processing systems and infra, and don't need a bio background: Software Engineer, High-Performance Pipelines: Engineering our metagenomic detection pipelines for speed, scalability, and reliability. job description https://securebio.org/careers/2026-software-engineer-pipelines/ , ~L4-L5 equiv at Google, $165-190k Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer: Own our AWS infra, which enables everything above job description https://securebio.org/careers/2026-cloud-infra-engineer/ , ~L5-L6 equiv at Google, $195-220k For both of these we're looking for people to work with us in-person in Kendall Sq Cambridge MA . We're offering a $5,000 referral bonus, paid out in stages: $150 if we invite them to a technical interview, another $650 if we bring them on site, another $2000 if they accept an offer from us, and a final $2,200 at the three month mark. If you know engineers, a few minutes thinking about who might be a good fit is worth your time, and theirs Comment via: facebook, mastodon, bluesky