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Observability Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 761+ observability jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 87 new this week. Hiring companies include Elastic, Grafana Labs, and ServiceNow.

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generous PTO 62
flexible hours 22
unlimited PTO 278
best places to work 328
generous parental leave 39

Updated September 2, 2026

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Senior Backend Engineer - Backend Platform

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18h

Close · Remote · USA

93 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)Pro-rata pay~$140k· reduced weekPro · early access

Senior Platform Engineer

Luscii · Remote · Utrecht, Netherlands

92 · Excellent4 Day Work Week

Staff AI Engineer - Enterprise Analysis Platform

Capital One · Remote · USA

86 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

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Analytics Engineer

1mo

Merit America · Remote · USA

94 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$152k

Software Engineer

BBC · Remote · Glasgow, UK

80 · GreatCompressed Work Week£48k – £58k

Senior Software Engineer (Go)

22d

Form3 · Remote · UK

92 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

Senior Cloud Engineer

26d

Luscii · Remote · Utrecht, Netherlands

92 · Excellent4 Day Work Week

Staff Engineer

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10h

Ledgebrook · Remote · USA or Canada

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $200kPro · early access

Staff Engineer

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14h

Ledgebrook · Remote · USA or Canada

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $200kPro · early access

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

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14h

Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$218k – $257kPro · early access

Software Engineer, Data Layer

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14h

Coinbase · Remote · Singapore, Singapore

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$144kPro · early access

Senior Platform Engineer

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TigerData · Remote · USA +2 more

65 · GoodSummer FridaysPro · early access

Senior Platform Engineer - Postgres Specialist

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TigerData · Remote · USA

65 · GoodSummer FridaysPro · early access

Staff Engineer

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18h

Ledgebrook · Remote · USA or Canada

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $200kPro · early access

Regional Sales Manager, Bay Area (Strategic)

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Cribl · Remote · San Francisco, CA, USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $165kPro · early access

Customer Architect (West)

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Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Staff Software Engineer (SRE)

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Phantom · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$200k – $250kPro · early access

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Playson · Remote · Ukraine

62 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

Director of Technology

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Ocra · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

Software Engineer — Integrations

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Kodex · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $180kPro · early access

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

Observability roles span the full seniority range — we list 763 open roles requiring Observability 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 — Observability 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. Observability 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 Observability 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 Observability on current listings.

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