Performance Engineering Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

RemoteUK

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteSweden

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteSpain

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

SRE Specialist II

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

2mo

Railway

RemoteWorldwide

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Principal Software Engineer - Postgres

2mo

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$215k – $250k

Principal Software Engineer - Postgres

2mo

RemoteIndia

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Principal Software Engineer - Postgres

2mo

RemoteNetherlands

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Principal Software Engineer, Performance

3mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$292k – $365k

Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Core Performance

2mo

Dropbox

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

17d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$177k – $365k

Principal Software Engineer - Data Lakes

1mo

RemoteGermany

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteIreland

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteGermany

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteNetherlands

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteGermany

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$141k – $208k

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteUK

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteIndia

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Engineer

Lightning AI

HybridLondon +3 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$120k – $250k

Staff Software Engineer – Create, Grow - Growth

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Tech Lead Manager - Data Platform & Reliability Engineering

20d

ID.me

HybridMountain View, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$243k – $275k

ML Model Serving Engineer

2mo

Sesame

OnsiteSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$175k – $280k

Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - AI Media Transforms

1mo

HybridVienna, Austria

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work€80k

Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Scalability

1mo

Klaviyo

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$244k – $366k

Technical Architect

17d

HybridHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Lead - System Validation Architect

17d

Graphcore

HybridAustin, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer

27d

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead)

27d

ServiceNow

OnsiteSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$191k – $334k

Senior Computer Scientist - C++

28d

Adobe

HybridBangalore, India

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Software Engineer II

1mo

HybridOakland, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$141k – $169k

Sr. Product Engineer- Observability, ArcGIS Enterprise

2mo

Esri

HybridRedlands, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$94k – $159k

Principal Research Scientist, Database Systems

2mo

MongoDB

HybridNew York City or Palo Alto

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$203k – $399k

Performance Engineer, Inference Systems

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Performance Engineer, GPU

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Senior Software Engineer

1mo

HybridOakland, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

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

Performance Engineering roles span the full seniority range — we list 39 open roles requiring Performance Engineering 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 — Performance Engineering 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. Performance Engineering 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 Performance Engineering 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 Performance Engineering on current listings.

Senior AI Research Engineer

Phaidra

RemoteEurope

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible£92k – £174k

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteUK

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteSweden

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteSpain

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

SRE Specialist II

RemoteBrazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

2mo

Railway

RemoteWorldwide

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Principal Software Engineer - Postgres

2mo

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$215k – $250k

Principal Software Engineer - Postgres

2mo

RemoteIndia

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Principal Software Engineer - Postgres

2mo

RemoteNetherlands

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Principal Software Engineer, Performance

3mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$292k – $365k

Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, Core Performance

2mo

Dropbox

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering

17d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$177k – $365k

Principal Software Engineer - Data Lakes

1mo

RemoteGermany

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteIreland

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

RemoteGermany

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteNetherlands

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteGermany

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$141k – $208k

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteUK

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

RemoteIndia

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Engineer

Lightning AI

HybridLondon +3 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$120k – $250k

Staff Software Engineer – Create, Grow - Growth

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Tech Lead Manager - Data Platform & Reliability Engineering

20d

ID.me

HybridMountain View, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$243k – $275k

ML Model Serving Engineer

2mo

Sesame

OnsiteSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$175k – $280k

Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - AI Media Transforms

1mo

HybridVienna, Austria

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work€80k

Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Scalability

1mo

Klaviyo

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$244k – $366k

Technical Architect

17d

HybridHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Lead - System Validation Architect

17d

Graphcore

HybridAustin, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer

27d

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead)

27d

ServiceNow

OnsiteSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$191k – $334k

Senior Computer Scientist - C++

28d

Adobe

HybridBangalore, India

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Software Engineer II

1mo

HybridOakland, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$141k – $169k

Sr. Product Engineer- Observability, ArcGIS Enterprise

2mo

Esri

HybridRedlands, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$94k – $159k

Principal Research Scientist, Database Systems

2mo

MongoDB

HybridNew York City or Palo Alto

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$203k – $399k

Performance Engineer, Inference Systems

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Performance Engineer, GPU

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)

2mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Senior Software Engineer

1mo