Updated July 14, 2026

26 open positions

Performance Engineering Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 26+ performance engineering jobs at companies offering best places to work and generous PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 2 new this week. Hiring companies include Fivetran, ClickHouse, and Anthropic.

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Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

1mo

Railway

RemoteWorldwide

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Principal Software Engineer, Performance

2mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

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

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

ClickHouse

RemoteNetherlands

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

ClickHouse

RemoteGermany

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

ClickHouse

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$141k - $230k

Senior Staff Engineer - Infrastructure

1mo

slice

RemoteIndia

59 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Principal Software Engineer - Data Lakes

25d

Fivetran

RemoteGermany

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

ClickHouse

RemoteUK

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Core Software Engineer (C++)

3mo

ClickHouse

RemoteIndia

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

Fivetran

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer (APAC)

Fivetran

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Performance (Tech Lead)

ServiceNow

OnsiteSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Computer Scientist

Adobe

HybridBangalore, India

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

ML Model Serving Engineer

2mo

Sesame

OnsiteSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - AI Media Transforms

14d

Canva

HybridVienna, Austria

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Scalability

25d

Klaviyo

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Engineering Manager, Video Performance

1mo

Canva

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Architect

14d

Experian

HybridHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Lead Software Engineer

14d

Experian

OnsiteCyberjaya, Malaysia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr. Product Engineer - Observability

1mo

Esri

HybridRedlands, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Research Scientist, Database Systems

1mo

MongoDB

HybridNew York City or Palo Alto

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Performance Engineer, Inference Systems

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Performance Engineer, GPU

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Software Engineer II

19d

Fivetran

HybridOakland, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer

21d

Fivetran

HybridOakland, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer

1mo

Fivetran

HybridBengaluru, India

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 Fivetran, ClickHouse, and Anthropic. 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 26 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.