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Vulnerability Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 24+ vulnerability research jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Parsons Corporation, Anthropic, and Elastic.

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9-day fortnights 4
flexible hours 2
unlimited PTO 9
best places to work 6
generous parental leave 3

Updated September 17, 2026

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Senior Security Engineer, Customer Transparency

NEW

15h

Tanium · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$191k – $293kPro · early access

Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR

Elastic · Remote · Spain

62 · GoodBest Place to Work€67k – €106k

Sr. Vulnerability Researcher (US)

VulnCheck · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

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Senior Cyber Vulnerability Researcher

1mo

Parsons Corporation · Remote · USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$112k – $196k

Staff Security Engineer

1mo

Redpanda · Remote · USA or Canada

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$210k – $247k

Senior Application Security Engineer

1mo

Clover Health · Remote · USA

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$169k – $220k

SecOps Engineer

3mo

Lido · Remote · Worldwide

63 · GoodFlexible Hours

Product Security Engineer

19d

Coinbase · Remote · Canada

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$154k

Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR

20d

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$133k – $253k

Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR

21d

Elastic · Remote · Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$128k – $203k

Product Security Analyst

2mo

HackerOne · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$120k – $155k

Sr. Exploit Developer (US)

4mo

VulnCheck · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Sr. Exploit Developer

4mo

VulnCheck · Remote · Cheltenham, England, UK

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Web Security Engineer, Browser Platform

5mo

DuckDuckGo · Remote · USA

61 · GoodFlexible Hours$179k

Staff Offensive Security Engineer

16d

Greenlight · Remote · USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$165k – $200k

Senior/Staff Security Researcher

1mo

Semgrep · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Forensic Software Developer

Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Quantico, VA, USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$104k – $181k

Reverse Engineer

Parsons Corporation · Onsite · Annapolis Junction, MD, USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$104k – $181k

Staff Security Engineer - Application/Product Security

ServiceNow · Hybrid · Petah Tikva, Israel

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Security Software Engineer, Open Source Frameworks

2mo

Vercel · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA +3 more

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$208k – $312k

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Employers hiring for Vulnerability Research on this page include Parsons Corporation, Anthropic, 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 24 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.

Vulnerability Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 24+ vulnerability research jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Parsons Corporation, Anthropic, and Elastic.

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