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Kafka Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 530+ kafka jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 48 new this week. Hiring companies include ClickHouse, Workato, and MongoDB.

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generous PTO 51
unlimited PTO 161
best places to work 229
generous parental leave 39

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Dev Ops Engineer

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Parsons Corporation · Remote · USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$104k – $181k

Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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Muck Rack · Remote · Bulgaria +2 more

68 · GoodGenerous PTO€95k – €110k

Dev Ops Engineer

Parsons Corporation · Remote · Virginia, USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$104k – $181k

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Staff Data Platform Engineer - Finance

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20h

Vercel · Remote · USA or Canada

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$260k – $360kPro · early access

Staff AI Acceleration Engineer

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Dave · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$208k – $289kPro · early access

Technical Customer Support Engineer, AI Infrastructure & Observability (EMEA)

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ClickHouse · Remote · Sweden

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

2mo

Signifyd · Remote · USA

89 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$150k – $190k

Senior Technical Customer Support Engineer, Federal

ClickHouse · Remote · USA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO$139k – $175k

Senior Technical Customer Support Engineer (LATAM)

ClickHouse · Remote · South America or North America

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events

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Zeta Global · Remote · USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$200k – $210k

Software Engineer 2 - Streaming Services

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New Relic · Remote · Spain

59 · GoodBest Place to Work

Staff Security Engineer

Redox · Remote · USA

69 · GoodRotating 4 Day Week$190k – $200k

Director, Data Strategy & Services

ServiceNow · Remote · Santa Clara, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$173k – $238k

Principal Software Engineer

ZoomInfo · Remote · Bethesda, MD +2 more

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$164k – $257k

Solutions Engineer (EMEA)

Redpanda · Remote · UK

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO£104k – £122k

Forward Deployed Engineer (Eastern US)

Redpanda · Remote · USA

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$194k – $229k

Forward Deployed Engineer (EMEA)

Redpanda · Remote · UK

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO£132k – £155k

Senior DevOps / Platform Reliability Engineer

Zingtree · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · USA

72 · GreatGenerous PTO$175k – $210k

Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Canada

72 · GreatGenerous PTO$186k – $224k

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

Kafka roles span the full seniority range — we list 530 open roles requiring Kafka 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 — Kafka 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. Kafka 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 Kafka 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 Kafka on current listings.

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