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Linux Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 906+ linux jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 169 new this week. Hiring companies include Arista Networks, Graphcore, and ServiceNow.

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9-day fortnights 86
generous PTO 24
unlimited PTO 201
best places to work 469
generous parental leave 52

Updated September 24, 2026

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Data Engineer

12d

Hivemind Technologies · Remote · Germany

96 · Excellent4 Day Work Week€63k – €85k

Senior Fullstack Developer PHP/Laravel

Händlerbund · Remote · Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

84 · Great4 Day Work Week

Senior Cloud Security Engineer - AI Resilience & Security Enhancements

2mo

Form3 · Remote · London, UK

92 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

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Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering

NEW

Block · Remote · Bay Area, USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$153k – $270kPro · early access

Embedded Systems Test Engineer

NEW

Geotab · Remote · Poland

61 · GoodFlexible HoursPro · early access

Staff Platform Database Engineer

NEW

Chainguard · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$205k – $231kPro · early access

Staff Field Engineer

Grafana Labs · Remote · UK

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Staff Field Engineer

Grafana Labs · Remote · Sweden

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Staff Field Engineer

Grafana Labs · Remote · Netherlands

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Senior DNS Engineer

NEW

DigitalOcean · Remote · Denver, CO, USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$139k – $174kPro · early access

Senior DNS Engineer

NEW

DigitalOcean · Remote · Denver, CO, USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$139k – $174kPro · early access

Senior DNS Engineer

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DigitalOcean · Remote · Denver, CO, USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$139k – $174kPro · early access

Staff Software Engineer II

2mo

Signifyd · Remote · USA

89 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$190k – $225k

Identity Management Developer (CEMI)

NEW

Cornell University · Remote · Ithaca, NY, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work WeekPro · early access

Director, Site Reliability Engineering

NEW

DuckDuckGo · Remote · Japan +24 more

61 · GoodFlexible Hours$244kPro · early access

Senior Manager, Engineering (Container Product Engineering)

NEW

Chainguard · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$229k – $258k

Senior Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting Analyst

NEW

Huntress · Remote · USA

60 · GoodBest Place to Work$150k – $170kPro · early access

Senior Software Engineer - Layer1

NEW

Arista Networks · Remote · Dublin, Ireland

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Senior C++ Engineer - SONiC

NEW

14h

Arista Networks · Remote · Bucharest, Romania

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Software Engineer (Java)

NEW

22h

Sectigo · Remote · Iași, Romania

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

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Employers hiring for Linux on this page include Arista Networks, Graphcore, and ServiceNow. Linux 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 Linux is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Linux roles span the full seniority range — we list 906 open roles requiring Linux 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 — Linux 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. Linux 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 Linux 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 Linux on current listings.

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