Updated August 4, 2026

24 open positions

Search Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 24+ search jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include Pinterest, Airbnb, and Elastic.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Marketplace/App Experience)

12d

Affirm

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$20k – $264k

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Marketplace/App Experience)

12d

Affirm

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$181k – $241k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization (Query Intelligence)

20d

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$200k – $235k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Relevance and Personalization

1mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$191k – $225k

Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization

2mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

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

Public Sector Account Executive (NHS)

1mo

Elastic

RemoteUK

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sales Sector Lead - Public Sector

1mo

Elastic

RemoteUK

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering

3mo

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$139k – $286k

Client Account Manager II, Entertainment & Gaming

HybridLos Angeles, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$89k – $155k

Engineering Manager, Search

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

Industry Manager II, Beauty & Luxury

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr Staff Software Engineer

ServiceNow

OnsiteMountain View, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$191k – $334k

Demand Generation Manager

Nulogy

HybridToronto, Canada

61 · Good4 day week during Summer

Director, Machine Learning - Search & Recommendation

14d

Upwork

HybridAustin +2 more

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$211k – $340k

Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligent Data, Signals & Systems

2mo

Block

HybridBay Area, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$277k – $415k

Research Scientist, Simulation Agents

1mo

Waabi

Hybrid

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$158k – $269k

Client Partner

HybridBuenos Aires, Argentina

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Client Partner

12d

HybridMexico City, Mexico

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Lead Client Account Manager (eCommerce) - Greater China Region

27d

HybridSingapore, Singapore

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Content Shopping

1mo

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering

3mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k – $332k

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering

3mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k – $332k

Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering

3mo

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$163k – $286k

Machine Learning Engineer II, Core Engineering

3mo

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$171k – $221k

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

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

Search roles span the full seniority range — we list 24 open roles requiring Search 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 — Search 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. Search 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 Search 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 Search on current listings.