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Rust Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 372+ rust jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 31 new this week. Hiring companies include Anthropic, Workato, and Canva.

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generous PTO 56
flexible hours 15
unlimited PTO 107
best places to work 107
generous parental leave 68

Updated August 29, 2026

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Software Engineer

Remesh · Remote · USA

86 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$135k – $170k

Software Engineer – Support

4mo

Close · Remote · USA

93 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

4mo

Close · Remote · USA

93 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

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Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

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DigitalOcean · Remote · California, USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$114k – $142k

Product Security Engineer, Secure Design

NEW

DigitalOcean · Remote · California, USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$114k – $142k

Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR

NEW

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$133k – $253k

Software Test Engineer

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Deepgram · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $220k

Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$133k – $253k

Principal Software Engineer - Mobile Platform

Canva · Remote · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Principal Software Engineer - Mobile Platform

Canva · Remote · Auckland, New Zealand

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Principal Software Engineer - Mobile Platform

Canva · Remote · Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Solutions Architect (MENA)

Deepgram · Remote · Europe +2 more

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · UK

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Sweden

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Spain

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Blockchain / Smart Contract Engineer

3mo

CapaCloud · Remote · USA

71 · GreatCompressed Work Week$5,000 – $7,500/mo

Distributed Systems / GPU Infrastructure Engineer

3mo

CapaCloud · Remote · Worldwide

71 · GreatCompressed Work Week$5,000 – $7,500/mo

Embedded Linux Consultant Engineer

1mo

Collabora · Remote · UK

70 · GreatFlexible Hours

Linux Kernel Consultant

4mo

Collabora · Remote · USA

70 · GreatFlexible Hours

Senior Staff Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management

Zocdoc · Remote · USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$200k – $290k

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Employers hiring for Rust on this page include Anthropic, Workato, and Canva. Rust 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 Rust is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Rust roles span the full seniority range — we list 373 open roles requiring Rust 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 — Rust 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. Rust 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 Rust 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 Rust on current listings.

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Rust Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 372+ rust jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 31 new this week. Hiring companies include Anthropic, Workato, and Canva.

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