Updated July 17, 2026

21 open positions

Security Hardening Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ security hardening jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include The Aerospace Corporation, Okta, and Ubisoft Montreal.

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IT System Administrator

DEFCON AI

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Lead DevOps Engineer

2mo

saas.group

RemoteEurope

62 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Defense / Edge Tech Lead

2mo

Deepgram

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Security Software Engineer II, Corporate Security

2mo

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$156k - $320k

Senior Mission Success Engineer, US Federal

23d

Armada

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Platform

1mo

Glia

RemoteEstonia +3 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Kubernetes Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridEl Segundo, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Linux Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridChantilly, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Linux Infrastructure-as-Code DevOps Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridChantilly, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Platform Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure

Nexthink

HybridMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Solution Security Architect

1mo

Ubisoft Montreal

OnsiteMontreal, Canada

85 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Solution Security Architect

1mo

Ubisoft Montreal

OnsiteMontreal, Canada

85 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Senior Software Engineer II - GPU/Image Building

DigitalOcean

HybridBengaluru, India

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Backend Engineer

1mo

Canva

HybridLondon, UK

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

23d

Definitive Healthcare

HybridFramingham, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Cybersecurity Engineer, Product Security

28d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteWashington, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

SRE Analyst III

1mo

Experian

OnsiteSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Security Engineer, Enterprise

1mo

Persona

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Security

1mo

Okta

HybridBengaluru, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Adobe Experience Manager DevOps Engineer

1mo

Okta

HybridToronto, Canada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Network Infrastructure Engineer

1mo

Arbor Energy

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

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Employers hiring for Security Hardening on this page include The Aerospace Corporation, Okta, and Ubisoft Montreal. Security Hardening 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 Security Hardening is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Security Hardening roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Security Hardening 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 — Security Hardening 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. Security Hardening 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 Security Hardening 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 Security Hardening on current listings.