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Updated July 1, 2026

21 open positions

Harness Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ harness jobs at companies offering best places to work and generous PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 3 new this week. Hiring companies include Experian, Workday UK and Ireland, and Five9.

21

Jobs

3

New This Week

7+

Companies

Updated Daily

SRE Specialist I

20h

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff AI Architect

7d

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Backend AI Engineer

7d

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)

29d

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)

29d

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior DevOps Engineer

29d

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

SRE Specialist I

14d

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior DevOps Engineer

28d

RemoteCosta Rica

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Development Engineer - Product Development Tools

22d

Workday UK and Ireland

HybridDublin, Ireland

68 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Software Development Engineer - Product Development Tools

22d

Workday UK and Ireland

HybridDublin, Ireland

68 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Software Engineer

2mo

HybridDublin, Ireland

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Director of Product Management, New Ventures

29d

HybridBengaluru, India

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Director of Engineering, New Ventures

29d

HybridBengaluru, India

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr AI Software Engineer

20d

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Software Engineer - Delivery Platform

1mo

HybridNew York City, USA

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$111k - $178k

Senior QA Engineer (Data Platform Testing)

20h

OnsiteHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Engineer (Fullstack/Vue/Next.js/Python/AWS)

20h

OnsiteHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior QA Engineer (Data Platform Testing)

12d

OnsiteHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer (AI, Java/Python)

14d

OnsiteHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - Java

28d

HybridNottingham, UK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Lead AI Engineer

28d

OnsiteHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Harness on this page include Experian, Workday UK and Ireland, and Five9. Harness 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 Harness is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

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