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Companies that were remote-first by design.

Most job boards treat every remote listing the same. These companies chose to be distributed before it was common, and they document how they work in public. The list is curated by hand. Every number below comes from live roles on their official career pages.

Companies hiring15
Open roles866
Worldwide roles172

Canonical

Linux OS (Ubuntu)
277open roles

Remote-first since 2004.

The company behind Ubuntu has hired globally and remotely for two decades.

Pioneer89 worldwide
See all 277 roles at Canonical →

GitLab

DevSecOps Platform
166open roles

All-remote, with a public company handbook documenting how it operates.

Its handbook is the most detailed public description of how an all-remote company actually runs.

Pioneer1 worldwide73 with pay
See all 163 roles at GitLab →

Grafana Labs

Open-source Observability
151open roles

Remote-first and open-source.

Observability tooling with a globally distributed engineering organisation.

Open source122 with pay
See all 150 roles at Grafana Labs →

Remote

Global HR Tech & Payroll Platform
69open roles

Remote-first, and builds the payroll and employment infrastructure other remote companies use.

The product exists to make cross-border remote hiring work.

Pioneer61 with pay
See all 59 roles at Remote →

Supabase

Open-source Firebase Alternative
51open roles

Open-source and remote-first, with development in public repositories.

The work is visible on GitHub before you apply, so you can assess the stack directly.

Open source37 worldwide
See all 51 roles at Supabase →

Tailscale

Zero-Config Mesh VPN Engine
47open roles

Remote-first across North America and beyond.

Networking infrastructure team that has hired remotely since founding.

Infrastructure45 with pay
See all 23 roles at Tailscale →

Mozilla

Open-source Web Tech
43open roles

Long-standing distributed organisation with a global contributor base.

Open-source foundation with decades of experience coordinating remote contributors.

Open source10 worldwide13 with pay
See all 28 roles at Mozilla →

Automattic

Web Infra (WordPress)
20open roles

Distributed since 2005, with no central headquarters.

One of the original fully distributed companies, behind WordPress.com, Tumblr and WooCommerce.

Pioneer18 worldwide20 with pay
See all 20 roles at Automattic →

Elastic

Search & Observability
13open roles

Distributed by default since founding, across dozens of countries.

Search and observability at scale, hiring remotely long before it was common.

Open source10 with pay
Open Elastic →

PostHog

Open-source Product Analytics
10open roles

Open-source and remote-first, with a public company handbook.

Small distributed team that documents its process and roadmap publicly.

Open source4 worldwide
See all 10 roles at PostHog →

Ghost

No open roles right now

Fully remote and operated by a non-profit foundation.

Independent, open-source publishing platform with a small distributed team.

Open source
Ghost company profile →

How this list is chosen

Inclusion is editorial, not paid. A company qualifies when its distributed or remote-first operating model is publicly documented by the company itself. Role counts, worldwide eligibility and pay visibility are recalculated from live listings on every refresh, so a company showing no open roles is showing the truth rather than a stale cache.

Not yet listed: RevenueCat, DuckDuckGo, Doist, Basecamp, HashiCorp. These are remote-first companies worth targeting, but we do not yet track their job boards, so we will not show role counts we cannot verify.

Want the wider view instead of the shortlist? Read remote-first companies hiring now for the full researched list, or browse the company directory, the worldwide remote roles, or every open role.