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SRE Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 103+ sre jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 14 new this week. Hiring companies include Grafana Labs, Fivetran, and Five9.

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generous PTO 16
flexible hours 3
unlimited PTO 18
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Cloud Software Engineer - Observability Platform

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ClickHouse · Remote · Canada or USA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Trading

NEW

Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$218k – $257k

Distinguished Engineer

18d

Capital One · Remote · USA

86 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)Pro-rata pay~$210k· reduced week

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

24d

Buffer · Remote · Worldwide

85 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$165k – $213k

Staff Platform Engineer (Americas)

Ashby · Remote · USA

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$232k – $323k

Senior DevOps Engineer

Tulip Interfaces · Remote · Japan

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Staff AI Architect

Experian · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$116k – $208k

Senior Engineer (Platform)

13d

Oyster HR · Remote · Kenya +4 more

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · UK

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Sweden

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

1mo

Grafana Labs · Remote · Spain

72 · GreatGenerous PTO

Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Murmuration · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Observability Analyst

Experian · Remote · Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Platform Engineer

10d

Radar Healthcare · Remote · Leeds, UK

59 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Consulting Engineer

13d

ClickHouse · Remote · Japan

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior DevOps Engineer - Core DevOps

10d

Five9 · Remote · Colombia

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior DevEx Engineer

1mo

RevenueCat · Remote · USA or UK

65 · GoodFlexible Hours$230k

Support Engineer - China (Alibaba Cloud Strategic Accounts)

2mo

ClickHouse · Remote · China

64 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

2mo

VRChat · Remote · Worldwide

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO

VP, Product Marketing, Observability

16d

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Employers hiring for Sre on this page include Grafana Labs, Fivetran, and Five9. Sre 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 Sre is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Sre roles span the full seniority range — we list 97 open roles requiring Sre 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 — Sre 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. Sre 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 Sre 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 Sre on current listings.

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SRE Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 103+ sre jobs at companies offering generous PTO and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 14 new this week. Hiring companies include Grafana Labs, Fivetran, and Five9.

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