ECS Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$160k – $195k

Manager II, Data Platform

Samsara

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sales Engineer

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Full Stack Engineer

AssetWatch

RemoteUSA or Canada

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer (L2)

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$117k – $155k

Technical Program Manager (India)

26d

SavvyMoney

RemoteIndia

70 · GreatHalf day fridays₹2.2M – ₹3.9M

Software Engineer

10d

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$117k – $146k

Architecture Specialist II

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Software Engineer

26d

Parachute Health

RemoteUSA

65 · Good4 day week during Summer$200k – $260k

Sr Software Engineer I

3mo

LTK

RemoteUSA

63 · Good4 day week during Summer

Engineering Manager, API

26d

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$280k – $340k

Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API

26d

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$240k – $290k

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - CostCheck

24d

Bluesight

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$125k – $145k

Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

1mo

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$218k – $327k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

SeatGeek

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$145k – $209k

Staff Software Engineer (L4)

1mo

RemoteIndia

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Junior Python Developer - Capture and Support

12d

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sales Engineer (EMEA)

1mo

RemoteUK

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Platform Architect

24d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Lead Software Platform Engineer, Core

26d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Cloud Security Engineer

2mo

Polymarket

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$180k – $250k

Especialista I - Technical Lead

18d

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Lead AI Architect - Data Platform

23d

Banyan Software

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$180k – $210k

Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML

1mo

Mitratech

RemoteGermany

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Data Engineer

2mo

RemoteCosta Rica

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Backend Programmer

2mo

Behaviour

HybridMontreal, Canada

87 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Software Engineer - AI Solutions

2mo

AWIN

HybridIași, Romania

85 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Software Engineer II, Backend

Match Group

HybridLos Angeles, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$145k – $150k

DevOps Engineer

Trulioo

HybridSan Diego, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$125k – $145k

Manager II, IT Service Operations

HybridNew York, USA

56 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$130k – $165k

Director, Senior Engineering (.Net FS + AI/ML)

HybridHyderabad, India

56 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

AI-Native Data Platform Engineer

Farther

HybridNew York, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Backend Software Engineer

HybridLausanne, Switzerland

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff SRE for K8s Platform Team

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

R&D Software Engineer

12d

AVEVA

HybridCambridge, UK

66 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior AI Engineer

10d

HybridLausanne, Switzerland

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Security Engineer

11d

METR

HybridBerkeley, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$286k – $503k

Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

1mo

HybridNew York, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$218k – $327k

Cloud Platform Architect, Tech Lead

26d

HybridBoston, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $240k

Senior DevOps Engineer

3mo

EliseAI

OnsiteNew York City or San Francisco

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$230k – $320k

Staff Software Engineer - AI-native automation

13d

HybridLausanne, Switzerland

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

AWS Architect

24d

Version 1

OnsiteLondon +5 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Software Engineer III

27d

ZoomInfo

HybridBethesda or Waltham

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$112k – $176k

Senior DevOps Engineer

1mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$120k – $160k

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - AWS Geospatial Technology

2mo

HybridRedlands, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$84k – $142k

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - AWS Geospatial Technology

2mo

HybridCharlotte, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$84k – $142k

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - AWS Geospatial Technology

2mo

HybridVienna, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$84k – $142k

Staff SRE for K8s Platform Team

2mo

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager- Site Reliability Engineer

2mo

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Ecs on this page include Experian, Nexthink, and Twilio. Ecs 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 Ecs is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Ecs roles span the full seniority range — we list 62 open roles requiring Ecs 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 — Ecs 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. Ecs 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 Ecs 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 Ecs on current listings.

Platform Engineer

Planning Center

RemoteUSA

84 · Great4 day week100% pay$200k – $235k

Staff Application Security Engineer

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$160k – $195k

Manager II, Data Platform

Samsara

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sales Engineer

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Full Stack Engineer

AssetWatch

RemoteUSA or Canada

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer (L2)

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$117k – $155k

Technical Program Manager (India)

26d

SavvyMoney

RemoteIndia

70 · GreatHalf day fridays₹2.2M – ₹3.9M

Software Engineer

10d

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$117k – $146k

Architecture Specialist II

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Software Engineer

26d

Parachute Health

RemoteUSA

65 · Good4 day week during Summer$200k – $260k

Sr Software Engineer I

3mo

LTK

RemoteUSA

63 · Good4 day week during Summer

Engineering Manager, API

26d

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$280k – $340k

Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API

26d

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$240k – $290k

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - CostCheck

24d

Bluesight

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$125k – $145k

Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

1mo

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$218k – $327k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

SeatGeek

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$145k – $209k

Staff Software Engineer (L4)

1mo

RemoteIndia

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Junior Python Developer - Capture and Support

12d

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sales Engineer (EMEA)

1mo

RemoteUK

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Platform Architect

24d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Lead Software Platform Engineer, Core

26d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Cloud Security Engineer

2mo

Polymarket

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$180k – $250k

Especialista I - Technical Lead

18d

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Lead AI Architect - Data Platform

23d

Banyan Software

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$180k – $210k

Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML

1mo

Mitratech

RemoteGermany

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Data Engineer

2mo

RemoteCosta Rica

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Backend Programmer

2mo

Behaviour

HybridMontreal, Canada

87 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Software Engineer - AI Solutions

2mo

AWIN

HybridIași, Romania

85 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Software Engineer II, Backend

Match Group

HybridLos Angeles, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$145k – $150k

DevOps Engineer

Trulioo

HybridSan Diego, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$125k – $145k

Manager II, IT Service Operations

HybridNew York, USA

56 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$130k – $165k

Director, Senior Engineering (.Net FS + AI/ML)

HybridHyderabad, India

56 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

AI-Native Data Platform Engineer

Farther

HybridNew York, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Backend Software Engineer

HybridLausanne, Switzerland

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff SRE for K8s Platform Team

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

R&D Software Engineer

12d

AVEVA

HybridCambridge, UK

66 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior AI Engineer

10d

HybridLausanne, Switzerland

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Security Engineer

11d

METR

HybridBerkeley, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$286k – $503k

Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

1mo

HybridNew York, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$218k – $327k

Cloud Platform Architect, Tech Lead

26d

HybridBoston, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $240k

Senior DevOps Engineer

3mo

EliseAI

OnsiteNew York City or San Francisco

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$230k – $320k

Staff Software Engineer - AI-native automation

13d

HybridLausanne, Switzerland

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

AWS Architect

24d

Version 1

OnsiteLondon +5 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Software Engineer III

27d

ZoomInfo

HybridBethesda or Waltham

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$112k – $176k

Senior DevOps Engineer

1mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$120k – $160k

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - AWS Geospatial Technology

2mo

HybridRedlands, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$84k – $142k

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - AWS Geospatial Technology

2mo

HybridCharlotte, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$84k – $142k

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - AWS Geospatial Technology

2mo

HybridVienna, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$84k – $142k

Staff SRE for K8s Platform Team

2mo

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager- Site Reliability Engineer

2mo