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SOC Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ soc jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 2 new this week. Hiring companies include Dolby, Esri, and Graphcore.

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9-day fortnights 6
generous PTO 1
unlimited PTO 8
best places to work 4
generous parental leave 1

Updated September 22, 2026

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Consulting Architect - Security (EMEA)

19d

Elastic · Remote · Germany

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Design for Test (DFT) Engineer

1mo

Positron AI · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

ASIC Architect (AI Inference)

1mo

Positron AI · Remote · USA or Canada

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

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Senior Staff Researcher -Sight Lab

NEW

Dolby · Hybrid · Sunnyvale, CA, USA

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$239k – $306kPro · early access

Senior Software Engineer (C++) - Sensor Pipelines

NEW

Latitude AI · Hybrid · Dearborn, MI +2 more

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO$179k – $269kPro · early access

Security Engineer

Wise · Hybrid · Austin, TX, USA

69 · GoodGenerous PTO$180k

Specialist, Electrical Engineering (FPGA)

L3Harris Technologies · Onsite · Clifton, NJ, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior Customer Trust Governance & Assurance Manager

Nutanix · Hybrid · San Jose, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Staff AI Multimodal Researcher

1mo

Dolby · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA +2 more

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$204k – $300k

Senior Researcher, Multimodal

2mo

Dolby · Hybrid · Atlanta, GA, USA

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$140k – $170k

Embedded Software Engineer

3mo

Cobham Ultra · Onsite · Tampa, FL, USA

69 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Electrical Engineer

4mo

Sesame · Onsite · San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$175k – $280k

Head of Detection and Response

5mo

Plaid · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA +2 more

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$216k – $329k

Security Operations Analyst

18d

Esri · Onsite · Vienna, VA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$70k – $114k

Security Operations Analyst

18d

Esri · Onsite · Vienna, VA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$70k – $114k

Staff Software Engineer (C++) - Radar Sensors

28d

Latitude AI · Hybrid · Pittsburgh, PA +3 more

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO$218k – $327k

Lead Bring-up & Characterisation Engineer

1mo

Graphcore · Hybrid · Bristol, UK

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Director, Silicon Verification

2mo

Graphcore · Hybrid · Bristol, UK

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Technical Program Manager, Silicon

1mo

Anthropic · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$365k – $435k

Principal Computer Vision Researcher - Advanced Technology Group

4mo

Dolby · Hybrid · Sunnyvale, CA, USA

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$239k – $306k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Soc on this page include Dolby, Esri, and Graphcore. Soc 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 Soc is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Soc roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Soc 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 — Soc 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. Soc 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 Soc 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 Soc on current listings.