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Updated July 12, 2026

117 open positions

Infrastructure Design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 117+ infrastructure design jobs at companies offering best places to work and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 12 new this week. Hiring companies include Anthropic, Nutanix, and ClickHouse.

117

Jobs

12

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Principal IT Systems Administrator

1mo

HybridBoston, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$100k - $125k

Site Reliability Engineer 3

1mo

HybridNew York, USA

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Site Reliability Engineer 3

1mo

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Linux Systems Engineer

1mo

Venus Aerospace

OnsiteHouston, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer, Systems Generalist

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer, DevOps

19d

OnsiteMountain View, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Consultant

24d

HybridSingapore, Singapore

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Consultant - Cloud Native Infrastructure & AIOps

1mo

HybridBogota, Colombia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

1mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (Dev Environments)

23d

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure

24d

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

28d

HybridLondon, UK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra

1mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Node Infra

1mo

HybridLondon, UK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

1mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering

1mo

HybridLondon, UK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Security Labs Engineer

1mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

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

Infrastructure Design roles span the full seniority range — we list 117 open roles requiring Infrastructure 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 — Infrastructure 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. Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Design on current listings.