Updated June 1, 2026

24 open positions

S3 Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 24+ s3 jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and flex Fridays—full pay and a better work-life balance. 9 new this week.

Hiring companies include Headspace, Polymarket, and Hugging Face. Schedules on offer include unlimited PTO, flex Fridays, and generous_parental_leave.

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Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Applications

12d

Temporal

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Data/Infrastructure Advocate Engineer

11d

Hugging Face

RemoteUSA

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data/Infrastructure Advocate Engineer (EMEA)

11d

Hugging Face

RemoteFrance

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Information Systems Engineer, Business Systems

11d

Block

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Backend Engineer — Ingestion

1mo

PostHog

RemoteUK

5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Data Engineer - Dbt, CI/CD

27d

ClickHouse

RemoteUSA or Canada

5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Data Science Engineer, AI

1mo

Turquoise Health

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer, Go - LLM Team

2mo

AssemblyAI

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$180k - $240k

Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

1mo

Assured

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

SDE 2 - Data Platform

15d

slice

RemoteIndia

5 day weekVery Flexible

Principal Data Scientist

29d

Headspace

RemoteUSA

5 day weekFlex Fridays

Senior Data Engineer

1mo

Polymarket

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

1mo

Polymarket

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

1mo

Flex

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

Headspace

RemoteUSA

5 day weekFlex Fridays

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

Headspace

RemoteUSA

5 day weekFlex Fridays$162k - $225k

Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

1mo

Omada Health

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer, Attribution & Events

10d

Cognitiv

HybridVancouver, Canada

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

1mo

Gusto

HybridDenver +4 more

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k - $270k

Distributed Systems Engineer 4 - Content & Business Products

19d

Netflix

HybridLos Gatos, USA

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 1, 2026

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for S3 on this page include Headspace, Polymarket, and Hugging Face. S3 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 S3 is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

S3 roles span the full seniority range — we list 27 open roles requiring S3 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 — S3 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. S3 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 S3 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 S3 on current listings.

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