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Linux Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 879+ linux jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 130 new this week. Hiring companies include Arista Networks, Graphcore, and ServiceNow.

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9-day fortnights 84
generous PTO 40
unlimited PTO 221
best places to work 433
generous parental leave 51

Updated September 3, 2026

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Sr. Product Support Engineer

Thales · Remote · Texas, USA

89 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

Associate Cyber Vulnerability Researcher

Parsons Corporation · Remote · USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$64k – $111k

Senior Cloud Security Engineer - AI Resilience & Security Enhancements

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Form3 · Remote · London, UK

92 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

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Consulting Architect - Security (EMEA)

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Elastic · Remote · Germany

62 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Senior Software Engineer II

1mo

Signifyd · Remote · USA

89 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$170k – $220k

Senior Solutions Architect II, AI/ML

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DigitalOcean · Remote · California, USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$150k – $186kPro · early access

Customer Support Engineer, Tier 1 (MacOS and MDM)

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JumpCloud · Remote · Mexico

62 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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LocalStack · Remote · Spain +3 more

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO€42k – €78k

Software Engineer, Enterprise

TigerData · Remote · USA

65 · GoodSummer Fridays

Senior Platform Engineer - Postgres Specialist

TigerData · Remote · USA

65 · GoodSummer Fridays

Senior HPC Storage Engineer

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Remote · USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior AI & Product Enablement Specialist

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Sysdig · Remote · Spain

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Senior AI & Product Enablement Specialist

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Sysdig · Remote · Italy

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Expert ACH Support Engineer

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Finastra · Remote · USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

Sr. Staff Consultant - Cloud Native

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Nutanix · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Advisory Solution Consultant

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ServiceNow · Remote · New York, NY, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$169k – $200k

Technical Consultant -Atlassian (German speaker)

Adaptavist · Remote · Germany

68 · GoodFlexible Hours

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Sales Engineer

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Sectigo · Remote · London, UK

57 · GoodBest Place to Work£96k – £128k

Channel Sales Engineer

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Sectigo · Remote · Austin, TX, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$112k – $132k

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Sales Engineer

Sectigo · Remote · Austin, TX, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$104k – $144k

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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 882 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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