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Database Design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 25+ database design jobs at companies offering best places to work and generous parental leave—for a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include Esri, Elastic, and MongoDB.

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compressed weeks 2
summer Fridays 1
unlimited PTO 2
best places to work 22
generous parental leave 3

Updated August 25, 2026

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Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

1mo

Elastic · Remote · Spain

62 · GoodBest Place to Work€67k – €106k

Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine

1mo

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$133k – $253k

Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engine - Elasticsearch

1mo

Elastic · Remote · Norway

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Online Storage)

14d

Affirm · Remote · Canada

61 · GoodBest Place to Work$181k – $241k

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Online Storage)

14d

Affirm · Remote · USA

61 · GoodBest Place to Work$204k – $264k

Senior Software Engineer, Query Execution

1mo

MongoDB · Remote · Ireland

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Technical Director, Builder Relations

2mo

MongoDB · Remote · India

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Machine Learning Engineer II

NEW

19h

PagerDuty · Hybrid · Lisbon, Portugal

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Machine Learning Engineer II

NEW

19h

PagerDuty · Hybrid · Lisbon, Portugal

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Technical Consultant – Enterprise Data Engineer (Geospatial Data & Platforms)

NEW

Esri · Onsite · Vienna, VA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$84k – $142kPro · early access

Technical Consultant – Enterprise Data Engineer (Geospatial Data & Platforms)

NEW

Esri · Onsite · Vienna, VA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$84k – $142kPro · early access

Technical Consultant – Enterprise Data Engineer (Geospatial Data & Platforms)

NEW

Esri · Onsite · Vienna, VA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$84k – $142kPro · early access

Staff Consulting Architect - Database

NEW

Nutanix · Hybrid · Pune, Maharashtra or Bangalore

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Tulip Interfaces · Hybrid · Somerville, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$130k – $180k

Lead Database Engineer

S&P Global · Hybrid · Bengaluru, India

56 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

PHP Laravel Developer

4mo

CyberNest · Hybrid · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

63 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Senior Data Engineer

3mo

EliseAI · Onsite · New York City, NY or San Francisco, CA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$240k – $300k

Senior Software Engineer, Monetization

4mo

Postman · Onsite · San Francisco, CA, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$200k – $240k

Sr Database Administrator

1mo

Five9 · Hybrid · Bengaluru, India

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

1mo

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

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Employers hiring for Database Design on this page include Esri, Elastic, and MongoDB. Database Design 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 Database Design is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Database Design roles span the full seniority range — we list 30 open roles requiring Database Design 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 — Database Design 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. Database Design 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 Database Design 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 Database Design on current listings.

Database Design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 25+ database design jobs at companies offering best places to work and generous parental leave—for a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include Esri, Elastic, and MongoDB.

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