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Vulnerability Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 18+ vulnerability research jobs at companies offering flexible hours and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Anthropic, VulnCheck, and Elastic.

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9-day fortnights 1
flexible hours 2
unlimited PTO 7
best places to work 5
generous parental leave 3

Updated August 28, 2026

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Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR

NEW

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$133k – $253kPro · early access

Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR

NEW

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$133k – $253kPro · early access

Staff Security Engineer

17d

Redpanda · Remote · USA or Canada

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$210k – $247k

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Senior Application Security Engineer

21d

Clover Health · Remote · USA

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$169k – $220k

SecOps Engineer

2mo

Lido · Remote · Worldwide

63 · GoodFlexible Hours

Product Security Analyst

2mo

HackerOne · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$120k – $155k

Sr. Exploit Developer (US)

3mo

VulnCheck · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Sr. Exploit Developer

3mo

VulnCheck · Remote · Cheltenham, England, UK

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Staff Engineer - Offensive Security

1mo

Twilio · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$156k – $229k

Senior Web Security Engineer, Browser Platform

4mo

DuckDuckGo · Remote · USA

61 · GoodFlexible Hours$179k

Senior/Staff Security Researcher

1mo

Semgrep · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety & Security

2mo

Anthropic · Remote · USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$3,850/wk

Offensive Cyberspace Warfare Senior Project Leader

NEW

The Aerospace Corporation · Onsite · Colorado Springs, CO, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$171k – $257k

Senior Application Security Engineer

ServiceNow · Hybrid · Petah Tikva, Israel

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Security Software Engineer, Open Source Frameworks

1mo

Vercel · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA +3 more

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$208k – $312k

Senior Application Security Engineer

1mo

ServiceNow · Hybrid · Petah Tikva, Israel

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products

16d

Anthropic · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$405k – $485k

Platform Security Engineering, Operating Systems

1mo

Anthropic · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

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

Vulnerability Research roles span the full seniority range — we list 18 open roles requiring Vulnerability Research 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 — Vulnerability Research 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. Vulnerability Research 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 Vulnerability Research 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 Vulnerability Research on current listings.