The companies hiring the most remote workers this week (29 October 2026)
5 min readBy The Remote1st team
We counted every live, fully remote job on Remote1st on 29 October 2026. Here are the ten employers with the most openings, the role types with the most demand, and how the jobs split between the US, the UK, the EU and Canada.
Every week we take a snapshot of the live jobs on Remote1st and write down what it shows. No forecasts, no hype: just who is hiring for remote roles right now, what kind of work they are hiring for, and where you need to live to apply.
This first edition uses data taken on Thursday 29 October 2026 at 18:56 (Dublin time). At that moment Remote1st listed 19,841 active, fully remote jobs from 1,521 companies. Hybrid and office-based roles are excluded, along with listings whose title or description asks you to come into an office.
Of those 19,841 roles, 17,481 were visible to everyone. The other 2,360 were less than three days old and only showed up for Remote1st Pro members; they reach free listings and alerts once they are 72 hours old.
The 10 companies with the most open remote jobs
| # | Company | Open remote jobs | Open to US | Open to UK | Open to EU | Open to Canada |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veeva Systems | 574 | 344 | 50 | 179 | 0 |
| 2 | Speechify | 376 | 218 | 30 | 117 | 2 |
| 3 | GitLab | 289 | 168 | 82 | 90 | 95 |
| 4 | Canonical | 246 | 146 | 245 | 245 | 145 |
| 5 | Harvey | 230 | 188 | 23 | 26 | 2 |
| 6 | Coinbase | 214 | 193 | 12 | 10 | 2 |
| 7 | ElevenLabs | 211 | 94 | 157 | 168 | 30 |
| 8 | Snowflake | 205 | 167 | 15 | 32 | 2 |
| 9 | Grafana Labs | 199 | 73 | 26 | 103 | 1 |
| 10 | ServiceNow | 187 | 176 | 6 | 12 | 0 |
A role can be open to more than one region, so the region columns don't add up to the total. Roles the employer says are open worldwide count towards every region.
A few things stand out:
- Veeva Systems has an unusually large batch this week. Its openings are spread across many business functions rather than one team, and about a third of them are open to people in the EU.
- Canonical is the most location-flexible employer in the top ten. Nearly every one of its 246 roles is open to the UK and the EU, and more than half are open to the US and Canada too.
- GitLab and ElevenLabs are the other names worth a look if you live outside the US. ElevenLabs had 157 roles open to the UK and 168 open to the EU.
- Coinbase, ServiceNow, Harvey and Snowflake are hiring mostly in the US this week. If you're in Europe, check the "can hire from" line before you spend time on an application.
The top ten together account for 2,731 roles, or about 14% of everything we list. The rest is a long tail: 81 companies had 50 or more remote openings, 441 had at least 10, and 382 had exactly one. Smaller employers can be less crowded, so don't only chase the big names. The companies hiring now page keeps the full list up to date.
The role types with the most openings
These are the biggest job categories across all 19,841 roles:
| Category | Open remote jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 4,578 | 23% |
| Other professional roles | 3,334 | 17% |
| Sales and business development | 2,329 | 12% |
| Solutions and technical support | 1,195 | 6% |
| AI and machine learning | 863 | 4% |
| Operations | 853 | 4% |
| Product | 831 | 4% |
| Finance and admin | 749 | 4% |
| Customer success | 661 | 3% |
| Data | 617 | 3% |
Engineering is still the biggest single group, but it is less than a quarter of the market. Roughly three in four openings this week sit outside the engineering category: selling software, supporting customers, running operations and finance, and plenty of work in healthcare, legal and education too.
Looking at job titles rather than categories:
- 2,283 titles mention software engineer or developer.
- 1,209 are account executive roles, and another 321 are SDR or BDR roles, the usual way into sales.
- 757 are solutions engineer, solutions architect or sales engineer roles, a good fit if you sit between technical and customer-facing work.
- 749 are product manager roles.
Browse the live lists: software engineer jobs, account executive jobs, solutions engineer jobs, product manager jobs and AI and ML engineer jobs.
Where you need to live
This is the question that wastes the most time in a remote job search. A job can say "remote" and still only hire in one country. Every listing on Remote1st shows where the employer can hire from, so here is how this week's roles split:
| Open to people in | Roles | Share of all roles |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 13,207 | 67% |
| European Union | 5,033 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 4,022 | 20% |
| Canada | 1,799 | 9% |
These figures include 1,054 roles the employer says are open worldwide. 1,573 roles are open to both the US and the UK or EU, and 6,660 are open to the UK, the EU or both. 1,525 listings don't name a region clearly enough for us to tag, so they're not in any of these rows.
The busiest employers change a lot depending on where you live:
- In the US: Veeva Systems (344), Speechify (218), Coinbase (193), Harvey (188), then Ramp and ServiceNow (176 each). Browse remote jobs open to the US.
- In the UK: Canonical (245), ElevenLabs (157), GitLab (82), Faculty AI (81), Supabase (80) and Camunda (63). Browse remote jobs open to the UK.
- In the EU: Canonical (245), Veeva Systems (179), ElevenLabs (168), Speechify (117), Mozilla (106) and Grafana Labs (103). Browse remote jobs in Europe.
- In Canada: Canonical (145), GitLab (95), Supabase (73), Mercury (54), then Camunda and Pathward (51 each). Canada-friendly roles are scattered, so the full remote jobs search is the best place to start.
If you can work across time zones, roles open to both Europe and the US and worldwide roles widen your options a lot.
Pay and seniority
Only 5,149 of the 19,841 roles (26%) publish a salary. It depends heavily on where the role is: 33% of US-eligible roles show pay, against 22% for Canada, 12% for the EU and 11% for the UK. Outside the US, expect to ask about salary early in the process.
The market is also senior-heavy. 8,738 roles (44%) have senior, staff, principal, lead, head, director or VP in the title. Only 673 (about 3%) say junior, graduate, entry level, associate or intern. If you're early in your career, don't filter only on the word "junior": many mid-level roles don't use a level in the title at all. The entry-level remote jobs page collects the ones that do.
What to do with this
- Start with eligibility, not the job title. Pick the region you can legally work from, then search inside it. It cuts out most of the dead ends.
- Apply early. 8,823 of this week's roles were added to Remote1st in the last seven days. Popular remote roles get a lot of applicants in the first few days.
- Look past the top ten. The biggest employers get the most applicants. The 1,000-plus companies with a handful of openings are often easier to stand out at.
- Have your numbers ready. Pipeline, revenue, tickets closed, time saved. Remote hiring managers lean on written applications, and specifics travel well in writing.
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We'll publish this snapshot every week, so you can see which companies are speeding up and which are slowing down.
Method: active, approved, unexpired listings on Remote1st on 29 October 2026 at 18:56 Dublin time, with hybrid and office-based roles removed. "Open to" uses the hiring regions each employer states in the listing. Counts are a snapshot of our listings, not of the whole job market, and some employers post the same role in more than one location. Always check the listing before you apply.
The Remote1st team