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 Software Engineer Jobs in United States (3,697)

Software Engineering Apprentice, Backend

Affirm · Part Time · 11 Weeks Ago

Affirm

🌎 United States ⭐ 0-2 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Backend Engineer

The apprentice will work with engineers to build, maintain, and scale critical infrastructure for experimentation, feature flags, and feature stores, shipping code and monitoring deployments. They will contribute to team projects and goals collaboratively, ensuring a balance of speed and quality while protecting systems from downtime.

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Senior Software Engineers – (Financial Cloud-Based Technologies)

FIS Global · Full Time · 11 Weeks Ago

FIS Global

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

The Senior Software Engineer will leverage specialized knowledge of FIS technologies to analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and new products for networked or Internet-based computer programs. This role involves defining system requirements, participating in software design meetings, writing technical specifications, coding, testing, and documenting applications using proprietary tools and methodologies.

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Sr. Director, Software Engineering & Architect

TradeStation · Full Time · 12 Weeks Ago

TradeStation

🌎 United States 💵 $240K - $270K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development Architect

This role involves providing strategic leadership to shape the technology roadmap, fostering innovation, and building a world-class engineering team focused on enterprise-scale, event-driven systems for real-time trading operations. Key duties include designing architecture using platforms like Kafka, leading technical evolution of the OMS platform, and driving operational excellence across multi-region cloud deployments.

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VP of Software Engineering

TrueML · Full Time · 12 Weeks Ago

TrueML

🌎 United States 💵 $225K - $325K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others

The VP of Engineering will define and execute the engineering strategy, lead system architecture decisions, and drive execution across product development, infrastructure, and operations, ensuring alignment with company objectives. This leader will also build, scale, and mentor a high-impact engineering organization while championing cross-functional collaboration.

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Manager, Software Engineering

Firstup · Full Time · 12 Weeks Ago

Firstup

🌎 United States 💵 $160K - $200K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others

The manager will lead the design, development, and delivery of customer-facing web applications using modern microservices architectures while providing senior technical leadership through architecture and code reviews. They will also manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of engineers, owning production health in a 'you build it, you run it' environment.

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Director of Software Engineering

Orbital Engineering, Inc. · Full Time · 12 Weeks Ago

Orbital Engineering, Inc.

🌎 United States ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others

The Director leads the software development organization, overseeing multiple teams to drive technical maturity, operational discipline, and the architectural direction of the enterprise software ecosystem. Key duties include building high-performing teams, delivering secure and scalable enterprise applications, and establishing modern development and quality assurance practices.

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Software Engineering Manager

Data Direct Networks · Full Time · 12 Weeks Ago

Data Direct Networks

🌎 United States ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others Engineering Manager

The manager will lead and grow a team of senior engineers focused on building next-generation distributed storage infrastructure, defining the technical roadmap, and overseeing system design and architecture reviews. Key duties include partnering with product teams, establishing engineering best practices, managing project execution, and ensuring reliable, high-availability solutions for data-intensive workloads.

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Manager, Software Engineering - Payments

Skimmer · Full Time · 12 Weeks Ago

Skimmer

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Others

This role involves leading and managing a small team of development engineers as a player/coach, contributing code, and acting as the internal technical expert for the platform's payments and finance systems. Key duties include driving integrations with financial platforms, overseeing security and compliance, and ensuring a secure, reliable, and compliant financial ecosystem.

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Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Zillow · Full Time · 13 Weeks Ago

Zillow

🌎 United States 💵 $206K - $330K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Others

The manager will lead a team of approximately eight engineers responsible for the reliability, evolution, and adoption of Zillow’s centralized leads platform, owning key initiatives like legacy system migration and expanding capabilities for agents and loan officers. Responsibilities also include shaping the reliability and observability strategy, improving operational excellence, and setting clear goals and development plans for the engineering team.

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Manager, Software Engineering - AI and Data Platform

Blackbaud · Full Time · 13 Weeks Ago

Blackbaud

🌎 United States 💵 $133K - $173K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development

The manager will lead teams responsible for building, operating, and evolving the enterprise Data & AI platform, which underpins analytics, data products, machine learning, and agent-based experiences across the company. This involves owning core platform capabilities like ingestion, lakehouse architecture, and AI/ML enablement layers while ensuring operational excellence and alignment with strategic goals.

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Sr. Software Engineer-AI Reliability

MixMode · Full Time · 13 Weeks Ago

MixMode

🌎 United States 💵 $150K - $210K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Software Engineer

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for owning the reliability, performance, and operational health of production AI services, which includes refactoring and hardening existing systems to improve resilience and maintainability. This role also involves diagnosing and resolving issues across distributed services, data pipelines, and storage layers, and partnering with researchers to productionize predictive systems at scale.

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Software Engineer: Backend

Thatch · Full Time · 13 Weeks Ago

Thatch

🌎 United States 💵 $161K - $230K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Software Engineer

The engineer will design, build, and evolve backend systems supporting enrollments, payments, payroll, and benefits management, architecting robust data models and funds flows for millions in transactions. This includes building integrations with external partners and improving operational rigor through automation and monitoring.

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Software Engineer: Full Stack

Thatch · Full Time · 13 Weeks Ago

Thatch

🌎 United States 💵 $161K - $230K per year ⭐ 2-5 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Software Engineer

The engineer will take ownership of meaningful product areas from initial concept through production, contributing across the full stack from user interfaces to backend services. Responsibilities include shipping quickly while maintaining correctness, upholding high standards for code quality and system design, and taking responsibility for production system reliability.

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Software Engineering Lead - Build Systems, Compilers and Languages

EngFlow · · 13 Weeks Ago

EngFlow

🌎 United States ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Others

The role involves leading core engineers and driving the development of key features for the platform, while also contributing directly to product and platform engineering efforts. Responsibilities include leading projects, managing a growing team, and contributing to open-source projects like Bazel, gRPC, and CMake.

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Manager, Software Engineering - Observability

Figma · · 14 Weeks Ago

Figma

🌎 United States 💵 $250K - $350K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Others

The manager will lead and grow a team of five engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Figma’s observability and cost engineering platforms. This includes owning the core observability stack, defining technical strategy for instrumentation, and exploring AI-driven approaches for automation.

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Director, Software Engineering & Integration (Exol)

Symbotic · · 14 Weeks Ago

Symbotic

🌎 United States ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development

This role involves leading the development and evolution of the digital platform, providing technical and organizational leadership across platform engineering, service architecture, integration frameworks, and application development. The Director is accountable for architecture integrity, engineering standards, and delivery execution across a globally distributed team.

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Software Engineering Manager – Embedded Software

Zone 5 Technologies · · 14 Weeks Ago

Zone 5 Technologies

🌎 United States 💵 $200K - $220K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Others Engineering Manager

The manager will lead, mentor, and build a high-performing software engineering team focused on mission-critical embedded software for UAV flight control, communications, and data processing. This includes providing technical and architectural guidance while coordinating project scope, schedules, and resource allocation for flight control and mission management software programs.

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Staff Software Engineer: Platform

Rogo · · 14 Weeks Ago

Rogo

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

The Staff Platform Engineer will define and lead the technical direction for scaling the platform to support significant growth in enterprise customers, focusing on architecture, reliability, and developer experience across Kubernetes infrastructure. Key ownership areas include designing scalable solutions for platform reliability, improving internal platform systems like deployments and tooling, and applying systems thinking to complex infrastructure challenges.

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RISC-V AI / HPC & Agentic Software Engineering Lead

Tenstorrent · Full Time · 15 Weeks Ago

Tenstorrent

🌎 United States 💵 $100K - $500K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development

This role is responsible for integrating and optimizing the Low-Level Kernel (LLK) infrastructure for CPU execution while leading the bring-up of a RISC-V-native agentic AI software stack. The lead will collaborate closely with architects, microarchitecture teams, compiler engineers, and AI kernel developers to ensure tight alignment between software capabilities and RISC-V architectural features.

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Manager, Software Engineering- Enhancements/ Account Maintenance (MANTL)

Alkami Technology · Full Time · 15 Weeks Ago

Alkami Technology

🌎 United States 💵 $168K - $210K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Others

This role involves building core user-facing flows and robust, scalable APIs for bank administrators and customers, while contributing production-grade code with strong documentation and testing. Key duties include aligning strategy and priorities across teams, developing the mid-term technical vision, and guiding system designs.

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Software Engineering Manager

Ancestry · Full Time · 15 Weeks Ago

Ancestry

🌎 United States 💵 $139K - $174K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others Engineering Manager

The role involves managing the core engineering team for the Family History Trees product, owning high-throughput systems, and working with product management to define software release goals. Responsibilities include coordinating with various technical teams, anticipating blockers, providing hands-on architectural guidance, and establishing quality standards.

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Manager, Software Engineering - Search & Recommendations

Figma · Full Time · 15 Weeks Ago

Figma

🌎 United States 💵 $250K - $350K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others

The manager will support a team of engineers spanning infrastructure to model development, focusing on hiring and career growth. They will also own the team’s technical strategy and roadmap while collaborating across engineering disciplines to deliver cutting-edge Figma AI features.

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Director, Software Engineering (Site Reliability Engineering)

Affirm · Full Time · 15 Weeks Ago

Affirm

🌎 United States 💵 $267K - $360K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development

The Director will set the vision and drive execution for Reliability Engineering, owning the delivery of high availability for core services to meet service level standards with external partners. This includes iterating on a global incident response program and building structures for continual risk management across the system.

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Manager, Software Engineering - Mobile Platform

Samsara · Full Time · 15 Weeks Ago

Samsara

🌎 Canada, United States 💵 142K - 184K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others

This role involves defining and evolving the cross-platform mobile strategy, improving build systems, establishing performance SLOs, and driving architectural simplification for scalability in IoT-heavy use cases. The manager will also lead customer-facing feature development, ensuring high product velocity and quality while balancing platform health.

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Manager, Software Engineering - Mobile Platform

Samsara · Full Time · 15 Weeks Ago

Samsara

🌎 Canada, United States 💵 $154K - $260K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Others

This role involves defining and evolving the cross-platform mobile strategy, improving build systems, establishing performance SLOs, and driving architectural simplification for IoT-heavy, real-time use cases. The manager will also lead customer-facing feature development, ensuring high product velocity and quality while balancing platform health.

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Director of Engineering, Software

Inseego Corp · Full Time · 16 Weeks Ago

Inseego Corp

🌎 United States 💵 $172K - $195K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others Director of Engineering

This role involves leading and scaling engineering teams responsible for building, operating, and evolving mission-critical, revenue-driving SaaS platform capabilities while partnering with Product leadership to align execution with business goals. The Director will own delivery, quality, and velocity, driving organizational clarity, establishing best practices, and balancing short-term execution with long-term technical strategy.

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Senior Software Engineer: Trading Infrastructure

Gauntlet · Full Time · 16 Weeks Ago

Gauntlet

🌎 Canada, United States 💵 $185K - $225K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Software Development Software Engineer

Design, implement, and operate scalable distributed systems in production while building low-latency and streaming systems for real-time workloads. Participate in incident response and contribute to system design and code reviews.

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Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

Cars Commerce · Full Time · 16 Weeks Ago

Cars Commerce

🌎 United States 💵 $154K - $192K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Others

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will guide an autonomous team to deliver value to dealer customers and influence backend platform architecture and front-end component strategy. You will also champion sound engineering practices and serve as incident commander for production reliability.

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Sr Director Analyst, AI and Software Engineering (Remote- US)

Gartner · Full Time · 18 Weeks Ago

Gartner

🌎 United States 💵 $172K - $202K per year ⭐ 10+ yrs exp 💼 Software Development

The Senior Director Analyst will research and analyze software engineering trends, create high-quality research reports, and advise senior executives on strategic decisions. They will also deliver actionable insights through various presentations and client interactions.

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Manager, Software Engineering - Interaction Design

Figma · Full Time · 19 Weeks Ago

Figma

🌎 United States 💵 $250K - $350K per year ⭐ 5-10 yrs exp 💼 Design

Lead the Interaction Design team to improve the platform and features supporting interactive experiences in Figma products. Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to set strategy and priorities while fostering a positive work environment.

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