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Updated July 14, 2026

28 open positions

network protocols Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 28+ network protocols jobs at companies offering best places to work and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 1 new this week. Hiring companies include Arista Networks, Workato, and Fivetran.

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New This Week

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Customer Success Engineer

1mo

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$85k

Staff Software Engineer, Edge

13d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Technical Solutions Engineer - NDO

1mo

Arista Networks

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - C Programmer

1mo

RemoteEurope +2 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - Core Databases

1mo

RemoteEurope +2 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems

6d

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Technical Solutions Engineer

25d

Arista Networks

OnsitePune, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Network Engineer - Test

25d

Arista Networks

OnsiteDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Associate TSE I

1mo

HybridGurugram, India

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Senior Backend Engineer (GO, API Gateways)

1mo

HybridSofia, Bulgaria

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Backend Engineer (GO, API Gateways)

1mo

HybridBerlin +2 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Rust Developer

1mo

HybridBelgrade, Serbia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer, Server Networking Security (Rust)

1mo

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Technical Solutions Engineer

25d

Arista Networks

HybridDenver, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Back End Software Engineer - C++

25d

Arista Networks

OnsiteMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Network System Test Engineer (Manual/Solution)

1mo

Arista Networks

OnsiteBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Rust Developer

1mo

HybridBarcelona, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Rust Developer

1mo

HybridBerlin, Germany

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Rust Developer

1mo

HybridFrankfurt, Germany

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Network System Test Engineer (Manual/Solution)

1mo

Arista Networks

OnsiteChennai, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Solutions Engineer - Datacenter

1mo

Arista Networks

OnsiteCary, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Solutions Engineer - Cloud, Hyperscalers and AI networks

1mo

Arista Networks

HybridSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Rust Developer

1mo

HybridMunich, Germany

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Rust Developer

1mo

HybridLisbon, Portugal

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Backend Engineer (GO, API Gateways)

1mo

HybridBarcelona or Madrid

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Software Test Engineer

1mo

Arista Networks

OnsiteSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Solutions Engineer

1mo

Arista Networks

OnsiteBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Solutions Engineer - NDO

1mo

Arista Networks

HybridSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

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

Network Protocols roles span the full seniority range — we list 28 open roles requiring Network Protocols 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 — Network Protocols 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. Network Protocols 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 Network Protocols 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 Network Protocols on current listings.