Updated June 2, 2026

22 open positions

Production Operations Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 22+ production operations jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best_place_to_work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 8 new this week.

Hiring companies include Confluent, Five9, and Temporal. Schedules on offer include unlimited PTO, best_place_to_work, and generous PTO.

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Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Collaboration

Vanta

RemoteUSA or Canada

Senior Director, Network Reliability

11h

Five9

RemoteUSA

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Applications

Temporal

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer II

Confluent

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Solutions Architect, Growth

1mo

Temporal

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k - $250k

Forward Deployed Solutions Lead

28d

Cribl

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Principal Engineer I - Cloud Observability

1mo

Confluent

RemoteIndia

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Software Engineer I - Stream Governance

1mo

Confluent

RemoteCanada

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Engineer, Platform

1mo

HappyCo

RemoteCanada

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Multigres Deployment Engineer

1mo

Supabase

RemoteWorldwide

5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior SW Engineer

23d

Collectly

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k - $180k

Staff Operational Support Engineer

Dolby

HybridAtlanta, USA

9 day fortnight

Engineering Manager - Backend Team

11h

Five9

HybridBengaluru, India

Principal Software Development Engineer

20h

CarGurus

HybridDublin, Ireland

Engineering Manager, Inference Routing and Performance

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

AI Software Engineer

22d

Augury

HybridHaifa, Israel

Rotating 4 day week

Software Engineer, Agentic Data Plane

11d

Redpanda

HybridWarsaw, Poland

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure

1mo

Discord

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

5 day weekGenerous PTO$196k - $221k

Senior Backend Engineer - Subscriptions

1mo

Spotify

HybridLondon, UK

5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Software Engineer

1mo

HackerOne

OnsitePune, India

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

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How we curate this list

We track companies that publicly offer reduced-hours schedules — 4-day weeks, 9-day fortnights, half-day Fridays, and more. This page refreshes daily; companies that drop the policy are removed. Read about our editorial standards →

Last reviewed: June 2, 2026

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Employers hiring for Production Operations on this page include Confluent, Five9, and Temporal. Production Operations 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 Production Operations is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Production Operations roles span the full seniority range — we list 22 open roles requiring Production Operations 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 — Production Operations 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.

Yes — companies listed on 4dayweek.io commit to full salary parity regardless of schedule. Production Operations roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers. Specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and the specific 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 Production Operations 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 Production Operations on current listings.

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