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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 roles846
Worldwide roles158

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
175open 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 worldwide89 with pay
See all 170 roles at GitLab →

Grafana Labs

Open-source Observability
136open roles

Remote-first and open-source.

Observability tooling with a globally distributed engineering organisation.

Open source110 with pay
See all 135 roles at Grafana Labs →

Remote

Global HR Tech & Payroll Platform
70open roles

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

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

Pioneer63 with pay
See all 58 roles at Remote →

Supabase

Open-source Firebase Alternative
48open 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 source29 worldwide
See all 47 roles at Supabase →

Mozilla

Open-source Web Tech
36open roles

Long-standing distributed organisation with a global contributor base.

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

Open source12 worldwide8 with pay
See all 22 roles at Mozilla →

Automattic

Web Infra (WordPress)
16open roles

Distributed since 2005, with no central headquarters.

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

Pioneer14 worldwide16 with pay
See all 16 roles at Automattic →

Elastic

Search & Observability
12open 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
7open roles

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

Small distributed team that documents its process and roadmap publicly.

Open source2 worldwide
Open PostHog →

Buffer

Social Media SaaS
1open role

Remote-first, and publishes its salary formula and individual salaries openly.

Unusually transparent about pay, which makes compensation expectations easy to research.

Pioneer1 worldwide
Open Buffer →

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.