Where can I find remote jobs?

DailyRemote, LinkedIn, and We Work Remotely are the top platforms for finding remote jobs in 2026. Company career pages at remote-first organizations like GitLab, Zapier, and Automattic list positions directly. FlexJobs and Remote.co offer curated listings with employer verification. Over 85,000 new remote positions are posted weekly across these platforms combined.

How much do remote jobs pay?

Remote jobs pay $50,000 to $200,000 annually, with software developers averaging $120,000, marketing managers $95,000, product managers $140,000, and customer support roles $45,000. Remote salaries match or exceed office equivalents at 78% of companies. Geographic arbitrage allows remote workers to earn San Francisco salaries ($150,000+) while living in lower-cost regions.

What remote jobs can I get with no experience?

Customer support representative ($35,000-$45,000), virtual assistant ($30,000-$50,000), data entry specialist ($28,000-$40,000), social media coordinator ($40,000-$55,000), and sales development representative ($50,000-$70,000 OTE) hire candidates without prior experience. These five roles account for 60% of entry-level remote job postings and require only communication skills and reliable internet.

What is the difference between remote and hybrid work?

Remote work means 100% work-from-anywhere with no office requirement. Hybrid work requires 2-3 office days weekly and limits where employees can live. 32% of US jobs are fully remote, 27% are hybrid, and 41% are fully in-office. Fully remote workers report 25% higher job satisfaction than hybrid workers. Hybrid roles pay 5-10% less than equivalent fully remote positions.

How do I prepare for a remote job interview?

Test camera, microphone, and internet speed 24 hours before the interview. Position lighting in front of your face, not behind. Use a neutral background or professional virtual background. Close all browser tabs and applications to prevent notifications. Dress professionally from head to toe. Look at your camera when speaking, not the screen. 67% of hiring managers have rejected candidates due to technical issues during video interviews.

What are the best countries for digital nomads?

Portugal ranks #1 for digital nomads with affordable cost of living ($2,000/month in Lisbon), fast internet (average 200 Mbps), Digital Nomad Visa, and strong expat community. Spain, Mexico, Thailand, and Colombia round out the top five. Key factors: time zone overlap with US/EU employers, cost of living under $2,500/month, reliable 50+ Mbps internet, and visa accessibility. Portugal and Spain offer paths to EU residency.

Are work from home jobs legit?

Yes, the majority of work from home jobs are legitimate. In 2026, over 35% of US workers hold fully remote positions at verified companies. To identify legit work from home jobs: check that the company has a real website and LinkedIn presence, never pay upfront fees to apply, verify the company on Glassdoor or Trustpilot, and apply through established job boards like DailyRemote that screen employers. Red flags include requests for personal banking information, guaranteed high income with no experience, and unprofessional communication. Remote-first companies like GitLab, Zapier, Automattic, and Shopify post legitimate work from home positions regularly.

What remote jobs are hiring immediately?

Customer support, data entry, virtual assistant, sales development, and content moderation roles are the remote jobs most commonly hiring immediately. These positions typically have a 1-2 week hiring process compared to 4-6 weeks for technical roles. Companies like Amazon, UnitedHealth Group, and CVS Health regularly post remote jobs with immediate start dates. On DailyRemote, new remote jobs are posted every day across 15+ categories, and many positions accept applications within 24 hours of posting. Filter by "latest" to see the most recently added remote jobs hiring now.

What are the easiest remote jobs to get?

The easiest remote jobs to get are customer service representative ($35,000-$50,000), data entry clerk ($28,000-$42,000), virtual assistant ($30,000-$55,000), transcriptionist ($25,000-$45,000), and online tutor ($30,000-$60,000). These roles require no specialized degree, have high hiring volume, and many offer part-time or flexible schedules. Most need only a computer, reliable internet, and basic communication skills. Customer service alone accounts for 25% of all entry-level remote job postings, and many companies provide paid training for new hires.

Are there part-time remote jobs?

Part-time remote jobs are widely available across multiple industries. Common part-time remote positions include customer support (20-30 hours/week), freelance writing ($25-$75/hour), virtual assistant (15-25 hours/week), online tutoring (10-20 hours/week), and bookkeeping (15-20 hours/week). About 30% of all remote job listings on DailyRemote offer part-time or flexible schedules. Many part-time remote jobs let you set your own hours, making them ideal for parents, students, or anyone building a side income. Companies like Belay, Time Etc, and Fancy Hands specialize in part-time remote positions.

Can I work remotely from anywhere in the world?

Many remote jobs allow you to work from anywhere in the world, though some have location restrictions for tax and legal reasons. Fully distributed companies like GitLab, Automattic, Toptal, and Deel hire in 50+ countries. International remote workers should consider time zone requirements (many US companies require 4+ hours overlap), tax implications in their country, and visa requirements. 54 countries now offer digital nomad visas including Portugal, Spain, Costa Rica, and Thailand. On DailyRemote, filter by "Worldwide" location to find remote jobs with no geographic restrictions.

What are the best work from home jobs?

The best work from home jobs in 2026 by salary and job satisfaction are: software engineer ($120,000-$200,000), product manager ($130,000-$180,000), UX designer ($95,000-$160,000), data analyst ($75,000-$120,000), and digital marketing manager ($80,000-$130,000). For non-technical roles, the best options are project manager ($85,000-$140,000), technical writer ($70,000-$110,000), and account executive ($80,000-$150,000 OTE). The best part-time work from home jobs include freelance writing, bookkeeping, and online tutoring. DailyRemote lists the best remote positions across 15+ categories — use the salary filter to find high-paying work from home jobs in your field.

What are high paying remote jobs?

The highest paying remote jobs are in technology, finance, and healthcare. Software architects earn $180,000-$300,000, engineering managers $170,000-$250,000, product directors $200,000-$350,000, and cybersecurity engineers $150,000-$220,000. In non-tech fields, remote sales directors earn $150,000-$250,000 OTE, management consultants $120,000-$200,000, and medical directors $200,000-$400,000. For entry-level workers seeking high pay without experience, sales development ($50,000-$80,000 OTE) and technical support ($45,000-$65,000) offer the best starting salaries with rapid advancement potential. Browse high-paying remote jobs on DailyRemote using the salary filter.

Remote Platform Engineer Jobs in United States (852)

Lead Platform Engineer 157 APPLICANTS

BioLM · Full Time · 16 Weeks Ago

BioLM

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Lead Platform Engineer will own the architecture and development of the core product platform while leading the creation of agentic workflows for molecular discovery. They will collaborate with the founding team to build full-stack features and integrate various internal applications into a seamless user experience.

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Senior Software Engineer, NOS Platform Engineer

Cornelis Networks, Inc. · Full Time · 17 Weeks Ago

Cornelis Networks, Inc.

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

You will lead platform porting and BSP development for switch ASIC platforms while designing and implementing control plane and data plane components for SONiC and FBOSS. Additionally, you will collaborate with hardware and firmware teams to integrate switch abstraction layers and optimize NOS performance for high-performance networking solutions.

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Microsoft Power Platform Engineer

Seneca Holdings · Full Time · 17 Weeks Ago

Seneca Holdings

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Power Platform Engineer will lead the design, development, and implementation of custom business applications and automation workflows within an enterprise environment. They are responsible for integrating solutions with the Microsoft ecosystem, ensuring system security, and providing ongoing technical support and maintenance.

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GCP Cloud Platform Engineer

Ontrac Solutions · Full Time · 18 Weeks Ago

Ontrac Solutions

🌎 United States 💵 $60 - $80 per hour ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The engineer will be responsible for building and managing core GCP infrastructure services, including Compute, networking, IAM, storage, and GKE. This role also involves executing cloud migrations from on-premises or multi-cloud environments into GCP using Infrastructure as Code.

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Senior Platform Engineer - Remote

Simple Solutions · Full Time · 19 Weeks Ago

Simple Solutions

🌎 United States ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing highly available, resilient, and cost-effective platforms and middleware solutions while driving automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices. Key duties include building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, engineering container platforms like OpenShift and Kubernetes, and implementing service mesh technologies.

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Agentic Platform Engineer

OnePay · Full Time · 19 Weeks Ago

OnePay

🌎 United States 💵 $170K - $210K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The role involves designing and operating core platform services that support high-scale distributed systems across the product ecosystem. Responsibilities include architecting Kafka-based event streaming systems and developing internal tooling and frameworks for agentic application orchestration.

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Senior Platform Engineer

Saga · Full Time · 19 Weeks Ago

Saga

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer will own the backend systems and infrastructure powering products, building services, APIs, deployment pipelines, and platform tooling to enable fast feature shipping. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services, evolving the infrastructure layer, and implementing observability for high availability.

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Senior MLOps Platform Engineer {S}

ARKA Group, LP · Full Time · 19 Weeks Ago

ARKA Group, LP

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The role involves designing, implementing, and operating a unified MLOps platform supporting both on-premise Kubernetes and AWS environments to enable rapid onboarding of Agentic AI services. Responsibilities include developing CI/CD pipelines, building observability stacks, and creating self-service tooling for data science teams.

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Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Security

Teleport · Full Time · 20 Weeks Ago

Teleport

🌎 United States 💵 $189K - $342K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Backend Engineer

Engineers will work on the full product lifecycle, from understanding customer problems to implementation, testing, and documentation, focusing on problems spanning networking, performance, security, and external system integrations for the Teleport product. The Platform Security team specifically implements security controls and collaborates with security researchers to identify and resolve vulnerabilities.

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Software Engineer - Platform / Core Infrastructure

XBOW · Full Time · 20 Weeks Ago

XBOW

🌎 United States 💵 $150K - $350K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Software Engineer

The engineer will design and implement complex, scalable, and secure distributed infrastructure systems supporting the core AI engine across multiple cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and OCI. Responsibilities include tuning cloud services for performance, developing core services in TypeScript, Kotlin, and Go, and owning problems end-to-end from design through production support.

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Senior Backend & Platform Engineer – FinOps, IAM & Blockchain 27 APPLICANTS

Moonshot · Full Time · 20 Weeks Ago

Moonshot

🌎 United States ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The engineer will design, build, and operate critical systems covering Identity & Access Management, financial operations like transfers and ledgering, and the underlying blockchain infrastructure for on-chain trading. This includes defining reliability standards, leading large technical projects, and mentoring other engineers.

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Staff Backend & Platform Engineer – FinOps, IAM & Blockchain 23 APPLICANTS

Moonshot · Full Time · 20 Weeks Ago

Moonshot

🌎 United States ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Staff Engineer will design, build, and operate critical systems covering identity and access management, financial operations like transfers and ledgering, and the underlying blockchain infrastructure for on-chain trading. This involves defining reliability standards, leading cross-functional projects, and mentoring other engineers on secure and high-scale backend foundations.

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Staff Platform Engineer

Beam Benefits · Full Time · 20 Weeks Ago

Beam Benefits

🌎 United States 💵 $195K - $200K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Staff Platform Engineer will drive the evolution and maturation of the production platform and developer experience by building systems that enhance speed, safety, and reduce cognitive load for other engineers. Responsibilities include tactically applying AI, collaborating with application teams to resolve bottlenecks, and designing/maintaining high-availability infrastructure.

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Sr. Data Platform Engineer

Real Time Medical Systems · Full Time · 22 Weeks Ago

Real Time Medical Systems

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

This role involves designing, building, and optimizing cloud-native data pipelines using technologies like PySpark and Python, while leading significant migration efforts from legacy SQL Server systems to modern PostgreSQL architectures. Duties also include implementing and maintaining AWS infrastructure via Terraform and ensuring data platform reliability through performance optimization and participation in an on-call rotation.

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Platform Engineer (DataOps)

Black Canyon Consulting · Full Time · 24 Weeks Ago

Black Canyon Consulting

🌎 United States 💵 $115K - $150K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The DataOps Platforms team is responsible for developing and continuously improving the DataOps platform, maintaining common tools and libraries, and evaluating new technologies and practices. They also assist NCBI developers with platform adoption and ensure compliance with Federal application security regulations through automated solutions.

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QA Platform Engineer

Black Canyon Consulting · Full Time · 25 Weeks Ago

Black Canyon Consulting

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Platforms team develops and continuously improves DevSecOps, DataOps, and Observability platforms while developing and maintaining common tools and libraries. This role also involves building and maintaining compliance pipelines with built-in quality gates and continuously gathering automated metrics for application quality.

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Lead Data Platform Engineer

Virtuous · Full Time · 25 Weeks Ago

Virtuous

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Lead Data Platform Engineer will own the evolution of the data platform, primarily using Snowflake and dbt, to create a secure, scalable, and AI-ready system for trusted decision-making. This involves designing durable platform capabilities like security models, access patterns, and cost controls that enable teams and AI systems to use data confidently at scale.

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Senior Platform Engineer

Socket · Full Time · 25 Weeks Ago

Socket

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The role involves partnering closely with engineers to debug production issues, enhance performance, and design scalable systems, while owning and evolving Socket’s infrastructure focusing on reliability, performance, and cost management. Responsibilities also include defining SLIs/SLOs, improving the deployment pipeline, building observability tools, and participating in an on-call rotation.

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Senior Backend Engineer - Platform & Infrastructure

Prismatic · Full Time · 25 Weeks Ago

Prismatic

🌎 United States 💵 $170K - $195K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Backend Engineer

You will write clean, maintainable, production-ready code and lead projects from conception through production deployment. Additionally, you will support and empower a cross-functional team and participate in technical decision-making.

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Senior Platform Engineer

Fanatics · Full Time · 27 Weeks Ago

Fanatics

🌎 United States 💵 $129K - $183K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

Own and deliver medium-to-large platform projects from implementation through production. Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling that improve developer experience and delivery velocity.

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Sr. Staff Platform Engineer, Medical Data

Synthesis Health · Full Time · 29 Weeks Ago

Synthesis Health

🌎 United States 💵 $170K - $205K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Sr. Staff Platform Engineer will own the integrity of the logical data model and architect patterns for service interaction with medical data. They will also lead the strategy for interoperability and ensure compliance with healthcare regulations.

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Sr. Staff Platform Engineer

Synthesis Health · Full Time · 29 Weeks Ago

Synthesis Health

🌎 United States 💵 $170K - $205K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Sr. Staff Platform Engineer will tackle substantial engineering challenges to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of distributed systems. This role involves driving the maturation of the technical stack and influencing the technical direction across multiple product areas.

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Staff Engineer - Platform, Fanatics Markets

Fanatics · Full Time · 29 Weeks Ago

Fanatics

🌎 United States 💵 $152K - $300K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development

The role involves leveraging AI tools to enhance development velocity and maintaining high-quality code standards. Additionally, it includes architecting and maintaining scalable platform infrastructure and collaborating with various teams to deliver innovative solutions.

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Senior Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

Moonlite · Full Time · 29 Weeks Ago

Moonlite

🌎 United States 💵 $165K - $225K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Software Engineer

You will design and implement the orchestration layer, APIs, and automation framework for a comprehensive infrastructure platform. This includes bridging physical infrastructure with customer-facing services for large-scale computation and AI workloads.

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Senior Platform Engineer

Hume AI · Full Time · 29 Weeks Ago

Hume AI

🌎 United States 💵 $180K - $230K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work with a team to improve services for expression measurement and generation. You will design, construct, and maintain cloud AI infrastructure and applications.

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Platform Engineer - Customer Success

Defense Unicorns · Full Time · 29 Weeks Ago

Defense Unicorns

🌎 United States 💵 $123K - $166K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

The Platform Engineer will manage UDS deployments, generate training documentation, and train customers on software tools. They will also serve as the primary technical interface for customers, providing guidance and troubleshooting for complex UDS issues.

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Senior Platform Engineer - Infrastructure (USA)

Kalepa · Full Time · 32 Weeks Ago

Kalepa

🌎 United States 💵 $170K - $210K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

As part of the infrastructure team, you will work on the infrastructure and tooling that power the core platform, maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating operational workflows. You will also ensure security and compliance while improving infrastructure performance and reliability.

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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

SambaNova Systems · Full Time · 36 Weeks Ago

SambaNova Systems

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

You will ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of the AI inferencing service, participating in a shared on-call rotation for 24/7 support. Your role includes managing service availability, monitoring, incident management, and capacity planning across multiple regions.

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Cleared Senior Platform Engineer (Secret)

Rise8 · Full Time · 40 Weeks Ago

Rise8

🌎 United States 💵 $163K - $203K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will create and implement automated configuration and deployment processes while collaborating closely with developers to ensure smooth operations. You will also take on operational responsibility for the services under your team's ownership.

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Platform Engineer II - Enterprise Vulnerability Engineer

Cleveland Clinic · Full Time · 41 Weeks Ago

Cleveland Clinic

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Platform Engineer

Design and support enterprise systems while ensuring stability, integrity, and efficient operation. Proactively manage and monitor the enterprise systems environment and troubleshoot issues as they arise.

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