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Browse 35+ search jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 3 new this week. Hiring companies include Elastic, Pinterest, and ServiceNow.

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generous PTO 1
flexible hours 3
unlimited PTO 10
best places to work 15
generous parental leave 4

Updated October 3, 2026

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Senior Backend Engineer - CRM

1mo

Close · Remote · USA

93 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)Pro-rata pay~$140k· reduced week

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Search)

NEW

Affirm · Remote · Canada

61 · GoodBest Place to Work$181k – $241k

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Search)

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Affirm · Remote · USA

61 · GoodBest Place to Work$204k – $290k

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Managing Director

1mo

Jump 450 · Remote · USA

75 · GreatHalf Day Fridays$135k

Technical Program Manager, Ads Delivery Infrastructure

Pinterest · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$124k – $255k

Senior Software Engineer, Search & AI

1mo

Muck Rack · Remote · Bulgaria +2 more

68 · GoodGenerous PTO€95k – €110k

Senior Staff Inbound Product Manager - AI Search

10d

ServiceNow · Remote · Addison, TX, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Inbound Product Manager - AI Search

10d

ServiceNow · Remote · Santa Clara, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$191k – $334k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Query Intelligence

2mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$200k – $235k

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering

3mo

Airbnb · Remote · San Francisco, CA, USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$212k – $260k

Senior Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host Marketplace AI

5mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$224k – $280k

Regional Vice President - Financial Services, Strategic Accounts

18d

Elastic · Remote · New York City, USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Solutions Architect - Search Specialist

26d

Elastic · Remote · UK

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Regional Services Partner - MENA

1mo

Elastic · Remote · Saudi Arabia

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Partner Solutions Engineer - Federal Systems Integrators (FSI)

1mo

Cribl · Remote · Washington, DC, USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$110k – $190k

Senior Product Manager, Help Center (CX Automation)

2mo

Coinbase · Remote · India

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO₹6.6M

Product Manager, Search Personalization

1mo

Pinterest · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$140k – $288k

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Core Engineering

3mo

Pinterest · Remote · Toronto, ON, Canada

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Research Scientist, Simulation Agents

3mo

Waabi · Remote · USA or Canada

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$158k – $269k

Public Sector Account Executive - Defence

1mo

Elastic · Remote · UK

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Employers hiring for Search on this page include Elastic, Pinterest, and ServiceNow. 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 35 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.

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Browse 35+ search jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 3 new this week. Hiring companies include Elastic, Pinterest, and ServiceNow.

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