Updated May 24, 2026

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Reliability Engineering Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 54+ reliability engineering jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and flexible hours—full pay and a better work-life balance. 10 new this week.

Hiring companies include Temporal, Airbnb, and ClickHouse. Schedules on offer include unlimited PTO, flexible hours, and generous PTO.

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Senior Quality Platform Engineer

Circle

RemoteWorldwide

5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Software Engineer, Agents

RevenueCat

RemoteSpain

5 day weekVery Flexible

Infrastructure Engineer III

HackerOne

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer II, ML Platform

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior AI Software Engineer – Risk Platform

1mo

Feedzai

RemotePortugal

4 day week during Summer

Principal Software Engineer - Agentic AI

13d

Pulumi

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer, Compute

13d

Temporal

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)

1mo

GitLab

RemoteCanada or USA

5 day weekVery Flexible$118k - $252k

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud

18d

Redpanda

RemotePoland

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Software Engineer, Open Source Server

1mo

Temporal

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$212k - $286k

Staff Software Engineer, Compute

1mo

Temporal

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$212k - $286k

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust

1mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

5 day weekVery Flexible$248k - $310k

Senior Software Engineer, Guest & Host (Partner Integrations)

1mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

5 day weekVery Flexible$190k - $220k

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

23d

Cribl

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Incident Management & Reliability

1mo

Confluent

RemoteCanada

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Software Engineer I - SRE

1mo

Confluent

RemoteIndia

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer - Stability

1mo

Mercury

RemoteCanada or USA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$167k - $251k

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Postgres

1mo

ClickHouse

RemoteUSA

5 day weekGenerous PTO$140k - $208k

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Postgres

1mo

ClickHouse

RemoteIndia

5 day weekGenerous PTO

Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team

1mo

ClickHouse

RemoteAustralia

5 day weekGenerous PTO

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Last reviewed: May 24, 2026

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

Reliability Engineering roles span the full seniority range — we list 54 open roles requiring Reliability 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 — Reliability 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.

Yes — companies listed on 4dayweek.io commit to full salary parity regardless of schedule. Reliability Engineering 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 Reliability 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 Reliability Engineering on current listings.

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Reliability Engineering Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

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