Updated August 4, 2026

21 open positions

DFARS Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ dfars jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and 9-day fortnights—full pay and a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include CHAOS Industries, L3Harris Technologies, and Armada.

21

Jobs

7

New This Week

7+

Companies

Updated Daily

Senior Manager, Government Compliance

21h

L3Harris Technologies

RemoteUSA

63 · Good9 day fortnight$105k – $224k

Senior Commercial Counsel, Public Sector

1mo

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Legal Counsel, Public Sector

1mo

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$140k – $275k

Contracts Specialist

2mo

Venus Aerospace

RemoteUSA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Solutions Architect – Enterprise Systems

3d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Business Application Architect

3d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteWashington, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Enterprise Application Architect

3d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteWashington, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Corporate Counsel, Public Sector and Regulated Offerings

6d

HybridNew York or Washington

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$180k – $248k

Associate General Counsel

3mo

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Enterprise Application Architect

3d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Business Application Architect

4d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Subcontracts Manager

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$120k – $170k

Principal Contracts Manager

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $200k

Contracts Administrator

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$120k – $170k

DevSecOps Engineer

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Cybersecurity Engineer, Product Security

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Cybersecurity Engineer, Product Security

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Cybersecurity Engineer, Product Security

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteWashington, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Cybersecurity Administrator, Data Loss Prevention

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteWashington, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Cybersecurity Administrator, Data Loss Prevention

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Cybersecurity Administrator, Data Loss Prevention

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Dfars on this page include CHAOS Industries, L3Harris Technologies, and Armada. Dfars 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 Dfars is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Dfars roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Dfars 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 — Dfars 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. Dfars 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 Dfars 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 Dfars on current listings.