Updated August 3, 2026

12 open positions

Load Balancing Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 12+ load balancing jobs at companies offering best places to work and generous parental leave—full pay and a better work-life balance. Hiring companies include Anthropic, Workato, and Canva.

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Updated Daily

Distributed Systems / GPU Infrastructure Engineer

2mo

CapaCloud

RemoteWorldwide

71 · GreatCompressed week$5,000 – $7,500/mo

Site Reliability Engineering, Fabric

2mo

MongoDB

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$127k – $249k

Senior Engineer, Inference Data Plane

10d

DigitalOcean

HybridSeattle, USA

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$139k – $174k

Site Reliability Engineer

19d

Forward Networks

HybridSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$230k – $250k

Senior Oracle Apps DBA Consultant

24d

Version 1

HybridLondon +5 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

System Engineer – ArcGIS

1mo

Esri

HybridSt. Louis, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$156k – $239k

Sr. System Engineer- ArcGIS

1mo

Esri

HybridVienna, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$156k – $239k

Site Reliability Engineering, Fabric

2mo

MongoDB

HybridToronto or Vancouver

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$144k – $200k

Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Deployment

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $485k

Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $485k

Senior Software Engineer, Inference

2mo

Anthropic

HybridLondon, UK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave£225k – £325k

Senior Software Engineer, Inference

2mo

Anthropic

HybridDublin, Ireland

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave€235k – €295k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

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

Load Balancing roles span the full seniority range — we list 17 open roles requiring Load Balancing 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 — Load Balancing 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. Load Balancing 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 Load Balancing 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 Load Balancing on current listings.