Top 100 Companies to Watch for Fully Remote Jobs (Part 1)

Finding the right companies to watch for remote jobs is not about chasing every employer with 'remote' in the job description.

Plenty of companies offer remote options. But far fewer offer remote work attached to serious, long-lasting upside.

We’re talking hard, compounding problems, durable demand, and strong operating pressure that keeps driving forward.

This is the difference between finding a remote job and building a remote career.

Come 2026, searching smart means looking past basic brand fame and job-board visibility. It means paying attention to the markets where complexity is rising, investment is moving, and ambitious remote workers have room to grow with the problems being solved.

The first 50 companies in this two-part series focus on the high-pressure sectors where the demand is already obvious - AI infrastructure, clean energy, healthcare, cybersecurity, and fintech.

These are not just companies with remote roles. They’re companies operating where the work is getting more technical, more urgent, and more valuable over time.

50 companies. 5 high impact sectors. Let’s find the ones that match your ambition.

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

The hottest technical category on Earth is only just getting started.

As of 2026, Gartner now predicts that AI will impact almost every layer of data and analytics. And recent research out of Morgan Stanley estimates that nearly $3 trillion worth of investment in AI-related infrastructure will move through the global economy by 2028 - with +80% of that still ahead.

The artificial intelligence and data science companies in this group are building the infrastructure behind that AI push: speech APIs, observability platforms, training data systems, model evaluation tools, data governance layers, and developer ecosystems.

If you want to work on problems that compound - technical challenges that get harder, more interesting, and more valuable to solve over time - read this group twice.

#1 AssemblyAI

🧑51-200 employees  | 📍2017; San Francisco, California | 📈114% YoY revenue growth; $158.1M total funding [2024]

AssemblyAI is a speech AI infrastructure company that gives developers APIs for transcription, speech understanding, speaker detection, and voice-data intelligence.

Speech AI infrastructure has moved way past cute voice-demos. AssemblyAI needs applied ML, low-latency API engineering, product reliability, developer experience, and customer-facing technical talent able to work across teams building real voice products.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($140K-$222K/yr)
• Sales Development Representative ($74K-$106K/yr)
• Solutions Engineer ($133K-$202K/yr)
• Operations ($71K-$129K/yr)

AssemblyAI is a strong fit for remote workers who want to work on the speech layer behind voice AI products, especially across ML engineering, backend APIs, developer experience, sales, and business operations.

#2 Datadog

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2010; New York, NY | 📈 28% YoY revenue growth [2025]

Datadog is an observability and security platform that helps teams monitor infrastructure, applications, logs, user experience, cloud cost, security, and AI workloads in one system.

Distributed cloud environments are too complex to run on guesswork. Datadog needs deep engineering, product, support, sales, and customer-success talent that can understand technical buyers and help customers manage reliability, security, and AI observability at scale.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($161K-$249K/yr)
• Account Executive ($176K-$296K/yr)
• Sales Development Representative ($88K-$129K/yr)
• Customer Success Associate ($61K-$89/yr)

Datadog is a strong fit for remote workers who want technical, customer-facing, or operational work tied to cloud reliability, security, AI observability, and high-scale SaaS.

#3 Deepgram

🧑51-200 employees  | 📍2015; San Francisco, California | 📈Raised $130M Series C at a $1.3B valuation [2026]

Deepgram is a real-time voice AI API platform that helps companies build speech recognition, text-to-speech, analytics, and voice-agent products.

Production voice AI is where the sparkle wears off, and the hard engineering begins. Deepgram needs speech-model expertise, low-latency infrastructure, enterprise reliability, product support, and go-to-market talent to feed their mission of moving voice to core interface status.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($121K-$170K/yr)
• Account Executive ($146K-$256K/yr)
• Sales Development Representative ($71K-$101K/yr)
• Data Scientist ($108K-$163K/yr)

Deepgram suits remote workers who want practical voice AI work after the demo stage, especially in speech models, developer APIs, real-time infrastructure, product consulting, and technical sales.

#4 Snorkel AI

🧑51-200 employees | 📍2019; Redwood City, California | 📈Raised $100M Series D at a $1.3B valuation [2025]

Snorkel AI is an AI data development company that helps enterprises build, evaluate, and tune specialized AI systems using expert data and programmatic workflows.

Specialized AI does not work without high-quality domain data, model evaluation, expert workflows, enterprise delivery, and research-backed product development. That’s feeding a demand for elite technical and customer-facing talent who can turn messy enterprise data into usable AI systems.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($139K-$174K/yr)
• Machine Learning Engineer ($150K-$216K/yr)
• IT Analyst ($80K-$129K/yr)
• Account Executive ($150K-$262K/yr)

Snorkel AI is a match for remote workers who want to work on the data bottleneck behind serious AI, especially across ML engineering, AI evaluation, expert workflows, customer delivery, and enterprise sales.

#5 Hugging Face

🧑51-200 employees | 📍2016; New York, NY  | 📈Raised $235M Series D at a $4.5B valuation [2023]

Hugging Face is an open AI platform where developers and researchers share models, datasets, apps, libraries, and infrastructure for machine learning.

Its ecosystem has gravity, and gravity creates complexity. Hugging Face needs ML, infrastructure, developer tooling, community, policy, and product team members that can support researchers, startups, enterprises, and open-source contributors across regions.

Ballpark pay:

• Machine Learning Engineer ($140K-$196K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($108K-$156K/yr)
• Data Engineer ($112K-$161K/yr)
• Developer Advocate ($98K-$139K/yr)

Hugging Face is best for remote workers who want open-source AI work with developer-community gravity, especially in ML engineering, infrastructure, data, research tooling, developer advocacy, and AI policy.

#6 Scale AI

🧑501-1,000 employees | 📍2016; San Francisco, California | 📈  $14.3B Meta investment [2025]

Scale AI is an AI data and model-evaluation company that helps enterprises, governments, and frontier labs train, test, and deploy reliable AI systems.

AI data, RLHF, model evaluation, enterprise AI, and public-sector AI programs all raise the talent bar. Scale AI needs people who can handle engineering, data quality, operations, delivery, security, and go-to-market work when model performance leaves the lab and starts carrying real stakes.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($183K-$265K/yr)
• Product Manager ($119K-$172K/yr)
• Engagement Manager ($144K-$249K/yr)
• Product Operations Manager ($111K-$174K/yr)

Scale AI fits remote workers who want AI infrastructure work with enterprise and government stakes, especially in engineering, model evaluation, data operations, product operations, and customer delivery.

#7 Labelbox

🧑51-200 employees  | 📍2018; San Francisco, California | 📈Raised $110M Series E at a $1B valuation [2025]

Labelbox is an AI data factory that combines expert labeling services and software for training data, model evaluation, human feedback, and frontier AI workflows.

AI labs and enterprises need controlled pipelines for data labeling, evaluation, and human feedback. Labelbox is building out the expert workforce that fills that need.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($91K-$135K/yr)
• Product Operations Manager ($85K-$136/yr)
• Machine Learning Support Engineer ($101K-$160K/yr)
• Account Executive ($73K-$124K/yr)

Labelbox suits remote workers who want to work where AI quality meets operations, especially in engineering, ML support, labeling systems, expert-data operations, product, and GTM roles.

#8 Dataiku

🧑+1000 employees  | 📍2013; Paris-founded, New York HQ | 📈Surpassed $350M ARR [2025]

Dataiku is an enterprise AI platform that lets technical and business teams build, deploy, govern, and manage analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and AI agents.

Enterprise AI is messy because technical ambition has to survive governance, analytics, agents, customer realities, and regulated workflows. Dataiku needs top talent across data science, solution architecture, customer success, enterprise sales, and product work that can connect AI to business reality.

Ballpark pay:

• Account Executive ($158K-$262K/yr)
• Data Scientist ($110K-$156K/yr)
• Sales Engineer ($155K-$247K/yr)
• Customer Success Manager ($108K-$165K/yr)

Dataiku is a fit for remote workers who want AI work connected to business reality, especially in data science, solution engineering, customer success, enterprise sales, and governance-heavy product work.

#9 Weights & Biases

🧑201-500 employees | 📍2017; San Francisco, California | 📈26.5% YoY revenue growth; $65M total funding [2024]

Weights & Biases is an AI developer platform that helps teams track experiments, evaluate models and agents, manage ML workflows, and monitor AI applications.

Model development collapses fast without reproducibility, evaluation, workflow visibility, infrastructure insight, and developer experience. Weights & Biases needs ML, engineering, product, support, and technical GTM talent who can help AI builders ship better models and agents without losing the plot.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($116K-$171K/yr)
• Account Executive ($114K-$204K/yr)
• Machine Learning Support Engineer ($131K-$193K/yr)
• Technical Support Engineer ($63K-$99K/yr)

Weights & Biases is ideal for remote workers who want to help AI builders ship better models and agents, especially across MLOps, LLMOps, developer tooling, support, product, and technical sales.

#10 Atlan

🧑201-500 employees | 📍2019; San Francisco | 📈Raised $105M Series C at a $750M valuation [2024]

Atlan is a data and AI context layer that helps companies govern metadata, lineage, discovery, collaboration, and trusted enterprise data for AI systems.

Enterprise AI has a context problem. Atlan needs talent that understands trusted context, governance, lineage, metadata, and semantic definitions across messy data stacks - especially as companies try to make AI useful without letting bad data turn the whole thing into an expensive dumpster fire.

Ballpark pay:

• Account Executive ($111K-$195K/yr)
• Technical Account Manager ($110K-$166K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($94K-$139K/yr)
• Sales Engineer ($138K-$222K/yr)

Atlan is best for remote workers who want to make enterprise data usable for AI, especially in data engineering, governance, metadata, customer success, sales engineering, and platform product work.

Renewable Energy & Green Technology

Clean energy is growing fast - but 2026 is testing whether it’s growing smart.

The IEA confirms clean-energy markets are still expanding, with solar covered ±25% of global primary energy demand growth for the first time ever in 2025. Despite policy turbulence and supply chain pressure, long-term momentum for green energy is real.

The renewable energy and green technology companies we're covering are building the software, marketplaces, monitoring systems, grid intelligence, and operational tools that help clean energy hit the ground with real-world performance.

If you care about working on problems with defined physical impact and a real market behind them, this group is where software, data, and real-world impact converge.

#11 Arcadia

🧑501-1,000 employees | 📍2014; Washington, DC | 📈22.79% YoY revenue growth; $505M total funding [2025]

Arcadia is a utility data and energy solutions platform that helps businesses manage energy costs, carbon, reliability, and clean-energy decisions with utility data and analytics.

Enterprise energy management is difficult because utility data is fragmented, energy markets are technical, and customers need clean direction they can act on. Arcadia needs elite data, product, engineering, sales, and customer expertise to turn that complexity into reliable software and services.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($97K-$155K/yr)
• Account Executive ($122K-$217K/yr)
• Program Manager ($108K-$163K/yr)
• Product Manager ($116K-$184K/yr)

Arcadia suits remote workers who want climate-tech work at the intersection of energy data, enterprise software, product, engineering, sales, and customer operations.

#12 Omnidian

🧑201-500 employees | 📍2016; Seattle, WA | 📈Raised $87M Series C at a $330M valuation [2025]

Omnidian is a solar and energy-storage performance assurance company that monitors, protects, and manages distributed renewable energy assets after installation.

Solar and storage portfolios become harder to manage after installation, when performance monitoring, remote diagnostics, field service coordination, customer communication, and data analysis all have to work together. Omnidian is building elite operational, technical, and customer-facing teams able to keep renewable assets performing at scale.

Ballpark pay:

• Portfolio Operations Manager ($124K-$188K/yr)
• Client Success Manager ($88K-$135K/yr)
• Commercial Solar Performance Manager ($95K-$151K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($99K-$142K/yr)

Omnidian is for people who want climate work with operational teeth - keeping solar and storage assets performing long after installation day.

#13 Aurora Solar

🧑51-200 employees | 📍2013; San Francisco, California | 📈Raised $200M Series D at a $4B valuation [2022]

Aurora Solar is a solar software company that helps installers design PV systems, model production, build proposals, and move projects through sales and delivery.

Solar adoption depends on reducing soft costs across design, permitting, proposal work, and financing conversations. Aurora Solar is looking for elite software, product, solar engineering, customer success, and sales talent to make those workflows faster, clearer, and easier to scale.

Ballpark pay:

• Senior Software Engineer ($141K-$190K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($121K-$171K/yr)
• Account Executive ($134K-$239K/yr)
• Business Development Representative ($74K-$110K/yr)

Aurora Solar fits remote workers who want to help solar teams move faster from customer interest to real rooftop deployment.

#14 Runwise

🧑51-200 employees | 📍2010; New York, NY | 📈Raised $55M Series B [2025]

Runwise is a smart building controls company that uses wireless hardware and software to reduce energy waste in heating, cooling, water, and building operations.

Building controls are complex because hardware deployment, cloud software, energy analytics, property operations, and customer support all collide inside aging real estate infrastructure. Runwise needs elite technical and operational talent to turn climate impact into measurable building performance.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($105K-$154K/yr)
• Account Executive ($111K-$203K/yr)
• Customer Support Manager ($101K-$156K/yr)
• Sales Operations Analyst ($69K-$96K/yr)

Runwise suits remote workers who want climate impact through building operations, with opportunities across software, sales, support, operations, and energy analytics.

#15 WattTime

🧑11-50 employees | 📍2014; Oakland, California | 📈501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization

WattTime is a climate data nonprofit that helps users reduce emissions by shifting electricity use toward cleaner grid moments using marginal-emissions data.

Emissions-aware energy decisions depend on electricity data, carbon accounting, grid modeling, software delivery, partnerships, and policy credibility. WattTime is drawing on elite technical, analytical, and communication talent to make complex grid-emissions data usable for real-world decisions.

Ballpark pay:

• Senior Software Engineer ($140K-$165K/yr)
• Analyst ($62K-$106K/yr)
• Senior Analyst ($76K-$124K/yr)

WattTime is for remote workers who want mission-heavy climate data work where software, data science, research, policy, and partnerships are used to cut real emissions.

#16 EnergySage

🧑51-200 employees | 📍2009; Boston, Massachusetts

EnergySage is a consumer marketplace that helps people compare solar, batteries, heat pumps, EV chargers, and other home energy options.

Consumer energy decisions are expensive, technical, and fragmented across installers, equipment, financing, incentives, and customer education. EnergySage needs elite marketplace, software, sales, and content talent to simplify those decisions without flattening the complexity.

Ballpark pay:

• Energy Advisor ($62K-$112K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($96K-$141K/yr)
• Sales Operations Analyst ($61K-$85K/yr)
• Business Development Manager ($85K-$148K/yr)

EnergySage is for people who want to make home energy decisions less confusing for customers who are interested, but absolutely not interested in becoming energy-market experts.

#17 LevelTen Energy

🧑51-200 employees | 📍2016; Seattle, WA | 📈$47.4M annual revenue [2025]

LevelTen Energy is a clean-energy transaction platform that helps buyers, sellers, advisors, and developers manage renewable energy deals and market intelligence.

Renewable energy procurement involves market data, risk, contracts, finance, analytics, and multi-party transaction workflows. LevelTen needs elite product, engineering, finance, analytics, and customer talent to make complex clean-energy deals easier to evaluate and execute.

Ballpark pay:

• Senior Product Manager ($137K-$185K/yr)
• Account Manager ($80K-$136K/yr)
• Senior Software Engineer ($128K-$172K/yr)
• Product Designer ($88K-$134K/yr)

LevelTen Energy fits remote workers who want to help clean-energy deals move through the commercial machinery that actually gets renewable projects financed and built.

#18 Palmetto

🧑201-500 employees | 📍2010; Charlotte, North Carolina | 📈$670M in total funding [2025]

Palmetto is a residential clean-energy company that combines solar, energy software, financing, and home energy services for consumers.

Residential energy deployment is a knot of customer acquisition, financing, installation, operations, marketplace economics, and software. Palmetto is on the hunt for product, engineering, operations, sales, and customer talent about to make home energy adoption easier, cheaper, and more scalable.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($92K-$137K/yr)
• Senior Software Engineer ($119K-$166K/yr)
• Business Development Manager ($107K-$184K/yr)
• Project Manager ($86K-$135K/yr)

Palmetto is for those who want to make residential clean energy easier to buy, finance, install, and manage.

#19 Power Factors

🧑501-1,000 employees | 📍2013; San Francisco, California

Power Factors is a renewable energy software company that helps owners and operators manage solar, wind, storage, and grid-connected asset performance.

Renewable asset operations require performance analytics, SCADA knowledge, grid awareness, customer delivery, and software reliability across large portfolios. Power Factors is building a team of technical, analytical, and customer-facing talent able to turn clean-energy data into better asset decisions.

Ballpark pay:

• Customer Success Manager ($67K-$117K/yr)
• Data Scientist ($122K-$179K/yr)
• Software Developer ($102K-$151K/yr)
• Business Analyst ($77K-$118K/yr)

Power Factors suits remote workers who want to help renewable energy operators turn asset data into better performance decisions.

#20 Octopus Energy

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2015; London, UK | 📈Kraken reached $500M contracted annual revenue [2025]

Octopus Energy is a global energy company and technology platform using its Kraken software to modernize energy retail, customer experience, and clean-energy operations.

Modern energy retail combines software, tariffs, grid flexibility, billing, customer service, and energy-market operations. Octopus Energy is looking for top technical, operational, and customer-facing talent to keep scaling cleaner, smarter energy infrastructure.

Ballpark pay:

• Energy Specialist ($50K-$92K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($99K-$152K/yr)
• Backend Developer ($74K-$134K/yr)
• Project Manager ($78K-$134K/yr)

Octopus Energy is for people who want to modernize energy from the inside - software, service, billing, grid flexibility, and all.

Healthcare & Biotechnology

Healthcare in 2026 is being pushed from two directions - and that’s creating unusual opportunity.

Scientific progress and delivery failure are colliding. Deloitte reports that more than 75% of biopharma and medtech executives feel confident about their organizations’ outlook. And McKinsey points to AI, robotics, and new care models as the primary forces reshaping the sector.

These healthcare and biotechnology companies aren’t trying to 'fix healthcare' in one grand heroic sweep. They're working on care navigation, virtual healthcare, mental health access, employer benefits, telemedicine, specialized care platforms, and digital tools that make healthcare less fragmented and more accessible.

If you want to work where technology and healthcare delivery genuinely overlap - where the problems are hard, the stakes are real, and demand is not going anywhere - this is your group.

#21 Included Health

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2011; San Francisco, California | 📈Raised $103M Series D at a $1.13B valuation [2020]

Included Health is a virtual care and healthcare navigation company that helps people find, understand, and use care across primary, specialty, behavioral health, and benefits support.

Healthcare navigation is difficult because clinical care, benefits, provider networks, privacy, and member support all collide at moments when people need clear answers fast. Included Health needs elite clinical, product, engineering, data, care-operations, and customer-facing talent to help make fragmented healthcare easier to use by those who need it.

Ballpark pay:

• Care Coordinator ($43K-$60K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($83K-$121K/yr)
• Senior Software Engineer ($117K-$159K/yr)
• Nurse Practitioner ($116K-$156K/yr)

Included Health is for people who want to make healthcare feel less like a maze at the exact moment people most need a map.

#22 Ro

🧑201-500 employees | 📍2017; New York, New York | 📈Raised $1.03B Series D at a $7B valuation [2026]

Ro is a direct-to-patient healthcare company that combines telehealth, diagnostics, pharmacy, and condition-specific care programs in one digital platform.

Digital healthcare at scale is complex because clinical operations, patient safety, pharmacy workflows, regulatory requirements, and consumer-grade product expectations have to work together. Ro needs elite healthcare, engineering, product, design, operations, and patient-support talent to simplify that experience without making it careless.

Ballpark pay:

• Member Experience Coordinator ($46K-$66K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($116K-$163K/yr)
• Product Designer ($85K-$127K/yr)
• Medical Operations Manager ($85K-$127K/yr)

Ro suits remote workers who want to build consumer healthcare experiences that feel modern without becoming shallow or careless.

#23 Headway

🧑501-1000 employees | 📍2019; New York, New York | 📈Raised $100M Series D [2024]

Headway is a mental healthcare platform that helps patients find insurance-covered therapy while giving providers infrastructure to manage their practices.

Mental healthcare access is hard because provider supply, insurance coverage, credentialing, billing, matching, and clinical quality all have to work at once. Headway needs elite product, engineering, operations, provider-growth, and customer talent to remove friction from both sides of the care marketplace.

Ballpark pay:

• Provider Growth Associate ($54K-$96K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($98K-$150K/yr)
• Senior Software Engineer ($121K-$172K/yr)
• Therapist ($80K-$111K/yr)

Headway is for people who want to make mental healthcare access work better for both patients and providers.

#24 Spring Health

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2016; New York, New York | 📈Raised $100M Series E at a $3.3B valuation [2024]

Spring Health is a mental health benefits company that combines care navigation, therapy, coaching, measurement, and employer mental health support.

Outcome-focused mental healthcare is complex because clinical rigor, measurement, employer benefits, care navigation, and member experience all need to align. Spring Health is looking for clinical, product, data, engineering, customer-success, and partnerships talent to prove health support has an ROI.

Ballpark pay:

• Mental Health Counselor ($67K-$98K/yr)
• Account Executive ($80K-$130K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($114K-$164K/yr)
• Senior Software Engineer ($136K-$181K/yr)

Spring Health fits remote workers who want mental health support to prove its value through better outcomes, not better benefits-deck wording.

#25 Hims & Hers

🧑501-1,000 employees | 📍2017; San Francisco, California | 📈FY2025 revenue of $2.35B, up 59% YoY [2025]

Hims & Hers is a consumer healthcare company that offers telehealth access, prescriptions, diagnostics, and condition-specific treatment across multiple health categories.

Consumer healthcare at scale is difficult because clinical governance, pharmacy operations, sensitive customer needs, growth marketing, product design, and regulatory compliance all move together. Hims & Hers are calling on product, engineering, clinical, data, operations, and growth talent to scale trusted modern care.

Ballpark pay:

• Customer Experience Agent ($37K-$54K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($117K-$175K/yr)
• Product Manager ($75K-$110K/yr)
• Nurse Practitioner ($125K-$167K/yr)

Hims & Hers is for people who want to build trusted consumer healthcare at wild scale.

#26 Talkspace

🧑201-500 employees | 📍2011; New York, New York | 📈FY2025 revenue of $228.9M, up 22% YoY [2025]

Talkspace is a virtual behavioral health company that gives people access to therapy and psychiatry through digital care delivery.

Digital mental healthcare is complex because licensed care, secure communication, patient matching, payer relationships, and ongoing member support all have to work together. Talkspace needs clinical, engineering, operations, and support talent to reduce the distance between needing help and receiving it.

Ballpark pay:

• Therapist ($60K-$85K/yr)
• Network Clinician ($84K-$117K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($100K-$143K/yr)
• Product Manager ($104K-$149K/yr)

Talkspace suits remote workers who want to reduce the distance between needing mental health support and actually receiving it.

#27 Teladoc Health

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2002; Dallas, Texas | 📈FY2025 revenue of $2.53B [2025]

Teladoc Health is a virtual healthcare company that provides primary care, mental health, chronic condition support, specialty care, and enterprise telehealth services.

Broad virtual care is difficult because clinical networks, platform reliability, data privacy, specialty programs, payer relationships, and enterprise needs all create different demands. Teladoc Health is building the clinical, technical, operational, data, and customer-facing teams needed to support healthcare delivery at scale.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($114K-$161K/yr)
• Senior Software Engineer ($147K-$200K/yr)
• Data Scientist ($120K-$165K/yr)
• Accounting Manager ($96K-$132K/yr)

Teladoc Health is for people who want to work on virtual care at system-level scale, not one tiny slice of digital health.

#28 Rula

🧑501-1000 employees | 📍2019; Los Angeles, California | 📈FY2024 revenue of $471M, up 100% YoY [2024]

Rula is a behavioral health platform that connects people to therapy and psychiatry covered by their insurance.

Insurance-covered mental healthcare is complex because provider onboarding, credentialing, matching, claims, and quality all need to line up before care can even begin. Rula needs product, engineering, provider-operations, revenue-operations, and support talent to simplify access while maintaining uncompromising standards.

Ballpark pay:

• Provider Success Associate ($49K-$68K/yr)
• Therapist ($66K-$95K/yr)
• Senior Software Engineer ($111K-$159K/yr)
• Operations Manager ($71K-$115K/yr)

Rula fits remote workers who want to make insurance-covered mental healthcare easier to find, access, and continue.

#29 Maven Clinic

🧑201-500 employees | 📍2014; New York, New York | 📈Raised $125M Series F, at a $1.7B valuation [2024]

Maven Clinic is a virtual health company focused on fertility, pregnancy, parenting, pediatrics, and menopause support.

Specialized family and reproductive healthcare is difficult because clinical depth, emotional sensitivity, privacy, and secure digital delivery all matter. Maven Clinic needs top clinical, product, engineering, care-advocacy, and partnerships talent able to support high-trust care journeys.

Ballpark pay:

• Care Advocate ($41K-$56K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($113K-$167K/yr)
• Product Manager ($112K-$158K/yr)
• Sales ($52K-$97K/yr)

Maven Clinic is for people who want healthcare work connected to deeply personal life stages where quality, trust, and care all matter.

#30 Wellhub

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2012; Sao Paulo, Brazil | 📈Raised $85M Series F, at a $2.4B valuation [2025]

Wellhub is an employee wellbeing platform that gives companies access to fitness, mental health, nutrition, and wellness services for distributed workforces.

Global wellbeing benefits are complex because marketplace supply, partner networks, subscriptions, employer relationships, analytics, localization, and member experience all need to work across countries. Wellhub is building out their partnerships, sales, product, operations, data, and customer-success teams to scale wellbeing benefits beyond local perk programs.

Ballpark pay:

• Client Success Manager ($66K-$105K/yr)
• Business Development Representative ($77K-$125K/yr)
• Account Executive ($127K-$220K/yr)
• Fitness Partnership Representative ($50K-$74K/yr)

Wellhub suits remote workers who want to scale wellbeing benefits beyond local perks into something global workforces can actually use.

Cybersecurity & Data Protection

Cybersecurity is one of the few industries where demand doesn’t slow down when budgets tighten.

Gartner identifies AI, regulation, and geopolitical instability as major forces shaping the sector in 2026. While Deloitte finds organizations embedding cyber more deeply into business strategy, treating it as infrastructure, not overhead.

These cybersecurity and data protection companies are building the tools organizations use to prevent, detect, survive, and recover from modern threats. We're talking everything from secure development platforms and compliance automation to zero-trust systems and cloud security.

If you want work where the stakes are high and the threats change every day, this is your group.

#31 GFI Software

🧑51-200 employees | 📍1992; Austin, Texas | 📈$49.5M annual revenue [2025]

GFI Software provides security, network management, and communications software for small and mid-sized businesses and managed service providers.

Serving SMBs and MSPs is a different security challenge from selling to Fortune 500 giants. Customers still need serious protection, but they rarely have huge budgets, deep internal IT teams, or spare capacity for complicated rollouts. GFI Software needs practical builders, support pros, partner specialists, and product operators who can make security usable for the small and medium businesses most at risk.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($118K-$173K/yr)
• Channel Account Manager ($135K-$222K/yr)
• Customer Success Partner ($82K-$124K/yr)

GFI Software is for people who want to make powerful security and IT tools practical for smaller businesses that still face very real threats.

#32 GitLab

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2014; San Francisco, California | 📈FY2026 revenue of $955.2M, up 26% YoY [2026]

GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that helps software teams plan, build, secure, deploy, and monitor code in one workflow.

Secure software delivery has become a full operating system. GitLab sits in the messy middle of code, CI/CD, collaboration, security, deployment, and compliance - so the talent bar is high for people who can help distributed engineering teams ship faster without creating a security bonfire.

Ballpark pay:

• Backend Engineer ($147K-$240K/yr)
• Account Executive ($188K-$314K/yr)
• Customer Success Engineer ($97K-$155K/yr)
• Solutions Architect ($225K-$348K/yr)

GitLab suits remote workers who want to help software teams build, ship, secure, and collaborate inside one connected development system.

#33 Drata

🧑501-1000 employees | 📍2020; San Diego, California | 📈Reached $98M in annual revenue [2025]

Drata is a security compliance automation company that helps organizations manage frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR.

Compliance automation sounds tidy until evidence, audits, integrations, policies, frameworks, and customer panic all arrive in the same week. Drata needs people who can translate trust and security requirements into systems customers can actually maintain.

Ballpark pay:

• Sales Development Representative ($65K-$94K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($122K-$175K/yr)
• Customer Success Manager ($79K-$126K/yr)
• Account Manager ($109K-$183K/yr)

Drata is for people who want to turn security compliance from audit-season chaos into something companies can actually manage.

#34 Zscaler

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2007; San Jose, California | 📈Q4 FY2025 revenue was $719.2M, up 21% YoY [2025]

Zscaler is a cloud security company that provides zero-trust access, secure internet connectivity, data protection, and cloud security services.

The old security perimeter is dead, and Zscaler is building for the world that replaced it. That means solving cloud access, data protection, identity, performance, and enterprise integration problems at scale - work that calls for sharp technical and customer-facing talent.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($155K-$226K/yr)
• Sales Engineer ($199K-$316K/yr)
• Account Executive ($230K-$386K/yr)
• Customer Success Manager ($150K-$239K/yr)

Zscaler fits remote workers who want to secure the cloud-first, perimeterless world that replaced the old office network.

#35 CrowdStrike

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2011; Irvine, California | 📈FY2026 revenue was $4.81B, up 22% YoY [2026]

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that provides endpoint protection, threat intelligence, cloud security, identity protection, and incident response through its Falcon platform.

CrowdStrike works in a category where vague thinking gets expensive fast. Endpoint protection, threat intelligence, cloud security, identity risk, and incident response all depend on a great team that can move quickly, think clearly, and build systems that hold up when the pressure is real.

Ballpark pay:

• Sales Development Representative ($75K-$108K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($156K-$226K/yr)
• Regional Sales Manager ($240K-$414K/yr)
• Account Executive ($170K-$290K/yr)

CrowdStrike is for people who want security work where the pressure is real, the threats move fast, and weak thinking gets punished quickly.

#36 Huntress

🧑501-1000 employees | 📍2015; Columbia, Maryland | 📈543% three-year revenue growth [2025]

Huntress is a managed cybersecurity company that protects small businesses and MSP customers from real-world threats across endpoints, identities, and managed detection.

Smaller businesses face real cyber threats, but most do not have enterprise-level defenses hiding in the back room. Huntress has to make managed security practical, understandable, and effective for customers who need protection without a giant internal security team.

Ballpark pay:

• Sales Development Representative ($84K-$132K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($11K-$171K/yr)
• Channel Account Manager ($156K-$268K/yr)
• Product Support Specialist ($62K-$100K/yr)

Huntress suits remote workers who want to protect smaller businesses from major cyber threats without pretending they have enterprise resources.

#37 1Password

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2005; Toronto, Canada | 📈Reached $400M ARR [2025]

1Password is an identity and password security company that helps individuals, teams, and businesses manage credentials, secrets, access, and sign-in security.

Security only works when humans use it. 1Password has to combine identity and credential protection with product experiences people do not avoid. And that’s driving their demand for great people who understand both secure systems and real user behavior.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($92K-$137K/yr)
• Technical Writer ($61K-$90K/yr)
• Customer Success Manager ($102K-$171K/yr)
• Technical Program Manager ($114K-$168K/yr)

1Password is for people who believe security only wins when humans actually use it.

#38 Wiz

🧑501-1000 employees | 📍2020; New York, New York | 📈Acquired by Google for $32B [2026]

Wiz is a cloud security company that helps organizations find, prioritize, and fix risks across multi-cloud and cloud-native environments.

Cloud security gets ugly because the attack surface keeps moving. Wiz has to help companies understand risk across multi-cloud environments that are sprawling, fast-changing, and easy to misread - the kind of work that rewards deep cloud, security, and customer judgment.

Ballpark pay:

• Technical Account Manager ($111K-$173K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($118K-$215K/yr)
• Solutions Engineer ($139K-$223K/yr)
• Account Executive ($109K-$174K/yr)

Wiz fits remote workers who want to help companies understand cloud risk before the attackers understand it better.

#39 Rubrik

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2014; Palo Alto, California | 📈Q4 revenue was $377.7M, up 46% YoY [2026]

Rubrik is a cyber resilience company that helps enterprises protect, secure, back up, and recover data after ransomware, outages, or other serious incidents.

Rubrik builds for the day prevention is not enough. Cyber resilience means backup, recovery, data security, infrastructure, and customer trust all have to hold together when something has already gone wrong. That’s not a place for sloppy systems or soft thinking.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($177K-$263K/yr)
• Sales Development Representative ($90K-$134K/yr)
• Sales Development Representative ($89K-$136K/yr)
• Product Designer ($156K-$217K/yr)

Rubrik is for people who want to build resilience for the day everything goes sideways and recovery suddenly matters most.

#40 Sophos

🧑+1000 employees | 📍1985; Abingdon, England | 📈Acquired Secureworks fo $859M [2025]

Sophos is a cybersecurity company that provides endpoint, network, email, cloud, managed detection, and incident response protection.

Mid-market security is complex because customers need broad protection, managed services, threat research, partner enablement, and support without building everything internally. Sophos needs top security, engineering, and customer talent to make strong protection achievable at scale.

Ballpark pay:

• Account Executive ($147K-$245K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($113K-$173K/yr)
• Sales Engineer ($141K-$222K/yr)
• Account Manager ($111K-$189K/yr)

Sophos suits remote workers who want to make broad cybersecurity protection realistic for mid-market teams.

Digital Financial Services (Fintech)

Fintech in 2026 has grown past flashy apps. The real action is in infrastructure, compliance, and embedded finance.

Technological disruption, evolving customer expectations, regulatory complexity, and intensifying competition are major forces shaping finance. That's a lot of pressure.

The digital financial services companies in this group are building the payment infrastructure, financial data connectivity, cross-border money movement, banking platforms, expense automation, consumer finance products, and the operational finance tools that businesses and customers can't live without.

If you want to work in a sector being updated for the 21st century - where the stakes are commercial, and software professionals can make a genuine mark - this is where to look.

#41 Stripe

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2010; San Francisco, California | 📈Reached $159B valuation [2025]

Stripe is a financial infrastructure company that helps businesses accept payments, manage revenue, embed financial services, and run internet commerce.

Global financial infrastructure is complex because payments, risk, compliance, reliability, fraud prevention, developer experience, and business tooling all have to work across markets. Stripe needs engineering, product, risk, finance-operations, sales, and technical-support talent to keep internet commerce moving.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($234K-$356K/yr)
• Product Manager ($26K-$390K/yr)
• Account Executive ($283K-$479K/yr)
• Risk Analyst ($110K-$201K/yr)

Stripe is for people who want to build and support the financial infrastructure that lets internet businesses move money at scale.

#42 Plaid

🧑501-1000 employees | 📍2013; San Francisco, California | 📈Raised $575M at a $6.1B valuation [2025]

Plaid is a financial data network that connects consumer bank accounts to apps and financial services through APIs.

Plaid sits inside the plumbing of fintech. Bank integrations, APIs, data privacy, reliability, compliance, and developer trust all need to work in the background so other financial products can function in the foreground. That’s driving a need for talent with major engineering, product, security, partnerships, compliance, and customer-success chops able to keep fintech’s connective tissue dependable.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($149K-$236K/yr)
• Product Designer ($80K-$128K/yr)
• Technical Support Engineer ($88K-$136K/yr)
• Account Executive ($155K-$257K/yr)

Plaid suits remote workers who want to work on the infrastructure layer that makes fintech products possible.

#43 Wise

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2011; London, England | 📈FY2026 cross-border volume increased 26% [2026]

Wise is a global money movement company that offers low-cost international transfers, multi-currency accounts, and cross-border financial tools.

Moving money across borders is a technical, regulatory, and operational maze. Wise is on the hunt for talent able to support managed payments, treasury, compliance, localization, fraud controls, and customer trust across markets, all while still making the experience feel simple.

Ballpark pay:

• Product Manager ($128K-$201K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($121K-$191K/yr)
• Operations Specialist ($53K-$78K/yr)
• Customer Support Associate ($45K-$69K/yr)

Wise is for people who want to make global money movement less expensive, less confusing, and less ridiculous.

#44 Ramp

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2019; New York, New York | 📈Reached $32B valuation [2025]

Ramp is a finance automation platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, procurement, bill pay, approvals, and spend controls.

Ramp is not just selling corporate cards - it is rebuilding the finance workflows underneath them. Expense controls, procurement, approvals, payments, risk, and integrations all need to work inside real company behavior. Ramp is searching for the talent able to make that happen.

Ballpark pay:

• Product Operations ($112K-$182K/yr)
• Account Manager ($121K-$219K/yr)
• Software Engineer ($145K-$199K/yr)
• Sales Development Representative ($75K-$128K/yr)

Ramp fits remote workers who want to help companies spend smarter by fixing the finance workflows hiding underneath corporate cards.

#45 Mercury

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2017; San Francisco, California | 📈Raised $300M Series C at a $3.5B valuation [2025]

Mercury is a financial technology company that provides banking, payments, treasury, and financial workflow tools for startups and technology companies.

Startup banking has to move quickly without playing fast and loose with money. Mercury is building out their engineering, product, risk, operations, support, and growth teams to stop startup finance from becoming a tax on momentum.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($108K-$154K/yr)
• Customer Support ($46K-$75K/yr)
• Frontend Engineer ($110K-$159K/yr)
• Risk Investigator ($64K-$116K/yr)

Mercury is for people who want to build modern banking and finance tools for startups that move too fast for old systems.

#46 BILL

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2006; San Jose, California | 📈FY2025 total revenue was $1.5B, up 13% YoY [2025]

BILL is a financial operations platform that helps businesses automate accounts payable, accounts receivable, spend management, and payments.

BILL works on the back-office money flows most companies cannot afford to mess up. Accounts payable, accounts receivable, approvals, payments, cash flow, compliance, and finance-team workflows all need to be dependable enough to fade into the background.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($158K-$238K/yr)
• Business Development Representative ($82K-$139K/yr)
• Product Manager ($159K-$242K/yr)
• Risk Analyst ($88K-$141K/yr)

BILL suits remote workers who want to make business payments, approvals, and financial admin less painful for real finance teams.

#47 Airwallex

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2015; Melbourne, Australia | 📈Raised $300M Series F at a $6.2B valuation [2025]

Airwallex is a global payments and financial infrastructure company that helps businesses manage cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts, cards, and embedded finance.

Cross-border finance is where payments complexity puts on a jetpack. Airwallex has to make multi-currency accounts, cards, embedded finance, risk, treasury, and compliance work across jurisdictions that do not all play by the same rules.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($136K/yr)
• Product Manager ($150K/yr)
• Product Designer ($209K/yr)
• Sales Engineer ($291K/yr)

Airwallex is for people who want to help global businesses move money without getting trapped by borders, currencies, and legacy finance systems.

#48 Chime

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2012; San Francisco, California | 📈FY2025 revenue was $2.2B, up 31% YoY [2025]

Chime is a consumer financial technology company that offers mobile banking services, debit cards, savings, credit-building tools, and fee-light financial products.

Consumer banking at Chime’s scale is not just a mobile UX problem. Fraud, compliance, risk, support, product design, and daily reliability all affect real people’s money, which means the work has to be simple on the surface and disciplined underneath. Chime is looking for engineering, product, fraud, operations, compliance, and support talent able to make everyday finance simpler and safer.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($225K-$440K/yr)
• Product Manager ($287K-$414K/yr)
• Business Analyst ($236K-$253K/yr)
• Product Designer ($239K-$327K/yr)

Chime fits remote workers who want consumer fintech work that affects everyday money decisions for millions of people.

#49 Affirm

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2012; San Francisco, California | 📈FY2025 revenue was $2.61B, up 40.02% YoY [2025]

Affirm is a consumer finance company that offers transparent installment payment options and financing at checkout.

Affirm sits at the collision point between finance, commerce, credit risk, and consumer trust. Checkout financing has to feel clear to buyers while still satisfying the harder machinery of underwriting, compliance, merchant partnerships, and repayment behavior. Affirm is looking for top talent able to support that mission.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($220K-$532K/yr)
• Data Scientist ($216K-$456K/yr)
• Product Manager ($1240K/yr)
• Business Operations Manager ($180K/yr)

Affirm is for people who want to work where credit, commerce, transparency, and consumer trust collide.

#50 Navan

🧑+1000 employees | 📍2015; Palo Alto, California | 📈Q3 FY2026 revenue was $195M, up 29% YoY [2026]

Navan is a travel and expense management company that combines corporate travel booking, payments, approvals, cards, and expense reporting.

Corporate travel and expense work gets messy because employees, finance teams, suppliers, policies, payments, and support all want different things at the same time. Navan is building out the systems that make that complexity feel like one connected workflow.

Ballpark pay:

• Software Engineer ($185K/yr)
• Business Analyst ($199K/yr)
• Product Designer ($210K/yr)
• Product Manager ($240K/yr)

Navan suits remote workers who want to make business travel and expense management feel less like a punishment for having a job.

Shortlist Your Companies to Watch for Remote Jobs in 2026

Finding remote work is no longer the needle-in-a-haystack problem it used to be. The harder work is separating decent opportunities from the ones that can genuinely shape your career.

The first 50 companies on this list are not here because they are famous, loud, or easy to spot on job boards. We've selected them because they sit inside markets where pressure is creating opportunity - sectors where ambitious remote workers can build skills that WILL stay relevant as the work expands.

These first 50 companies are a great starting point. So study their markets, watch their movement, and find the roles where your skills match the problems being solved.

Then keep going.

In Part 2, we move beyond the most obvious high-pressure sectors and into the operating layer underneath modern work - the companies helping goods move, businesses run, people learn, and physical industries get smarter.

The smartest remote workers in 2026 don't spray and pray. They take aim and fire.

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