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on-call Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ on call jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. Hiring companies include Grafana Labs, MongoDB, and Playson.

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9-day fortnights 1
generous PTO 5
unlimited PTO 4
best places to work 6
generous parental leave 3

Updated September 13, 2026

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Software Engineer - Platform Metal

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · UK

72 · GreatGenerous PTO£72k – £87k

Software Engineer - Platform Metal

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Spain

72 · GreatGenerous PTO€65k – €78k

Software Engineer - Platform Metal

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Ireland

72 · GreatGenerous PTO€82k – €98k

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Staff Software Engineer, Safety Processing

5mo

Discord · Remote · Los Angeles, CA, USA

67 · GoodGenerous PTO$279k – $341k

Site Reliability Engineer

1mo

PostHog · Remote · USA

65 · GoodFlexible Hours

Senior Backend Engineer (Boosters)

13d

Playson · Remote · Europe

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Backend Engineer (Core Team)

13d

Playson · Remote · Ukraine

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior DevOps Engineer

16d

LocalStack · Remote · UK +3 more

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO£70k – £90k

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering

3mo

Thumbtack · Remote · Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$180k – $233k

Staff Platform Engineer

1mo

Cortex · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$250k – $285k

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Deal Reporting)

3mo

Affirm · Remote · Spain

61 · GoodBest Place to Work€103k – €139k

Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · USA

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Staff Operational Support Engineer

3mo

Dolby · Hybrid · Atlanta, GA, USA

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$137k – $187k

Data Center Engineer II

16d

DigitalOcean · Onsite

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$86k – $107k

Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Deliverability

4mo

Front · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

59 · GoodFlex Fridays$178k – $204k

Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

19d

ServiceNow · Hybrid · San Diego, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$129k – $219k

Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform - Kubernetes - Distributed Systems - Federal

29d

ServiceNow · Hybrid · Santa Clara, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$150k – $262k

Software Engineer 3

1mo

MongoDB · Hybrid · New York, USA

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$106k – $209k

Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

2mo

Fivetran · Hybrid · Toronto, ON, Canada

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$168k – $209k

Site Reliability Engineer (Senior or Staff), Deployments

2mo

MongoDB · Hybrid · New York, NY or Toronto, ON

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$127k – $249k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

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

On Call roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring On Call 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 — On Call 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. On Call 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 On Call 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 On Call on current listings.