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Data Engineering Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 175+ data engineering jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 24 new this week. Hiring companies include Fivetran, Esri, and DoiT.

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9-day fortnights 9
generous PTO 17
unlimited PTO 55
best places to work 69
generous parental leave 12

Updated September 2, 2026

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Data & Insights Engineer, Customer Solutions

DALTIX · Remote · Europe

86 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

Solutions Engineer, AI/ML

NEW

Cake · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

Distinguished Engineer, Full Stack

1mo

Capital One · Remote · USA

86 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)Pro-rata pay~$210k· reduced week

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Staff Data Platform Engineer - Finance

Vercel · Remote · USA or Canada

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$260k – $360k

Customer Success Engineer, Federal

Cribl · Remote · Washington, DC, USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$110k – $180k

Lead Data Engineer (Brazil Based)

Experian · Remote · São Carlos, State of São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior AI Platform Engineer

14d

Oyster HR · Remote · Romania +6 more

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Staff AI Engineer - 2nd Horizon

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · UK

72 · GreatGenerous PTO£100k – £124k

Staff AI Engineer - 2nd Horizon

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Ireland

72 · GreatGenerous PTO€117k – €147k

Staff AI Engineer - 2nd Horizon

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Germany

72 · GreatGenerous PTO€109k – €137k

Senior Director, Data Platform and AI

2mo

Oyster HR · Remote · USA +10 more

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Senior Data Platform Engineer

15d

Much Better Adventures · Remote · London, UK

71 · GreatGenerous PTO£85k – £95k

Engineering Manager-People Analytics

SoFi · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Data Platform Engineer

12d

Owner.com · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$190k – $220k

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence

19d

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$212k – $265k

Senior Technical Product Manager - AI Enablement

1mo

Aledade · Remote · USA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior Software Engineer II - Ingestion AI Engineer

1mo

Aledade · Remote · USA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering - Communication & Connectivity

1mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$248k – $310k

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust

4mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$244k – $305k

Forward Deployed Engineer I

14d

Kinaxis · Remote · UK or Ireland

63 · GoodRotating 4 Day Week

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Employers hiring for Data Engineering on this page include Fivetran, Esri, and DoiT. Data Engineering roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Data Engineering is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Data Engineering roles span the full seniority range — we list 176 open roles requiring Data Engineering across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Data Engineering hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Data Engineering roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Data Engineering candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Data Engineering on current listings.

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Browse 175+ data engineering jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 24 new this week. Hiring companies include Fivetran, Esri, and DoiT.

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