Big tech companies that hire remote workers: who is hiring in 2026

The short answer

Yes, big tech companies still hire remote workers. On 1 November 2026 we found 1,427 roles marked as remote on the careers sites of 14 big tech companies. That is 17.6% of the 8,127 remote roles we track across 162 companies. Microsoft (286), NVIDIA (216), Salesforce (193), ServiceNow (154) and Amazon (150) had the most. Two caveats matter more than the totals. Two-thirds of these roles (948) were for US-based candidates only. And most of them are in engineering, sales and data, not in general office work.

The full list updates daily on our big tech remote jobs page, and each company has its own page, for example Microsoft remote jobs.

How we counted

We read each company's own careers site or official job feed every day and keep only roles the company itself marks as remote. We do not scrape job boards, and we do not guess from job titles. The numbers below come from the run on 1 November 2026. Three limits are worth knowing:

• Google and Meta are not included. We do not currently have a job feed from them that we can read, so they are left out rather than estimated. The same applies to some other large employers.
• "Remote" means what the employer says. Some roles marked remote still expect occasional travel or limit where you can live. The location line in the posting decides.
• Counts move daily. Roles are filled and new ones posted every day, so treat these numbers as a snapshot.

Which big tech companies hire remote workers

Source: our count of roles marked remote on each company's careers site, 1 Nov 2026. A role open in several regions is counted in each.

Two things stand out. Among the larger employers, Amazon is the only one whose remote roles were more often open in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East than in the US, and many of them are customer support and operations roles rather than engineering. NVIDIA and Red Hat had the most remote roles open in Europe. Apple and Intel had very few remote roles, so they are long shots for a fully remote job.

Which jobs big tech hires for remotely

Across all 14 companies, engineering was the largest group with 416 roles (29%), followed by sales and partnerships (249), data and AI (195), product (120) and security (111). Customer success and support had 72 roles, operations 56 and marketing 39. Finance, HR, legal and design each had fewer than 20.

The lesson for job seekers is plain. A remote role at a big tech company is most likely to be technical or customer-facing. Sales roles are often remote because the person works close to customers, not close to the office. If your field is finance, HR or design, big tech remote roles are scarce, and smaller companies are often a better bet. Browse remote engineering jobs, remote sales jobs or remote data jobs across all 162 companies we track, including the next-gen AI and space companies.

Where you can live: the US-only problem

This is where most applications fail. Of the 1,427 big tech remote roles, 948 (66%) were for candidates based in the US only. 479 were open in at least one place outside the US: Asia-Pacific and the Middle East (198), Europe (113), Canada (71), Latin America (58) and the UK (47). Remote rarely means "anywhere". It usually means "anywhere in this country", because the company needs a legal entity there to employ you and pay tax and social security correctly.

Before you apply, read the location line and filter by where you can legally work: US, Europe, UK, Canada, Asia-Pacific or Latin America. If the role is in another country, the employer may hire through an employer of record (EOR), but that is the company's decision, not something you can ask for in the application. Contracts and tax rules differ by country. This article is not legal or tax advice, so check your own situation with a qualified adviser.

Working across time zones is part of the job. Our guide on scheduling meetings across time zones covers the basics.

Pay transparency: what the postings show

361 of the 1,427 roles (25%) included a pay range in the data we read. For US-only roles it was 320 of 948 (34%). It varied a lot by company: Salesforce (116 of 193), Cisco (73 of 83) and Workday (43 of 50) often included ranges in their feeds, while NVIDIA and ServiceNow did not in the data we received. That may say more about their feeds than their postings, so check the posting itself.

Laws drive much of this. In California, employers with 15 or more employees must include a pay scale in job postings, and the state's guidance says this covers roles that may be filled remotely by someone in California (Labor Code section 432.3). In the EU, the Pay Transparency Directive (EU) 2023/970 gives applicants a right to information on starting pay or its range before the interview. Member states had until 7 June 2026 to bring it into national law, and not all have done so fully. Our remote salary pages show the ranges employers actually posted, with the sample size, for example remote engineering salaries and remote sales salaries.

Office policies: why remote roles are scarcer than they were

Big tech has pulled most staff back to the office, and that shapes how many roles get posted as remote. Amazon's CEO told employees to be in the office five days a week from 2 January 2025, except in extenuating circumstances or with an approved Remote Work Exception. Microsoft announced in September 2025 that employees would work from the office three days a week, starting in the Puget Sound area in February 2026 and then moving to other US and international locations. GeekWire reported that some roles, such as field sales, are exempt. So a role marked remote at these companies is a deliberate exception, often tied to customers or to a scarce skill. That is one more reason to apply only where your experience is a close fit.

How big tech interviews remote candidates

Remote candidates usually go through the same process as office candidates, just over video. Amazon describes its steps publicly: an online application, assessments for some roles, a phone screen, and an interview loop of several interviews. Its interview guide recommends answering behavioural questions with the STAR method (situation, task, action, result), using "I" rather than "we", and preparing examples for its Leadership Principles. Other companies use different names, but the pattern is similar: a screen, sometimes a timed online test, then several structured interviews.

• Prepare for the online assessment. Many large employers send timed aptitude or work-style tests early on. Practise with our free 10-question cognitive test, then the numerical, verbal and psychometric practice tests. Your results feed a simple Job Readiness Score. Our numerical reasoning tips cover the calculations that come up most.
• Write six to eight STAR stories with real numbers from your work, and map each to the company's published values.
• Treat the video call like an office interview. Test your camera, light and sound the day before; our guide on looking good on video calls helps.

How to apply so your CV gets read

1. Apply on the company's own site. Every role we list links straight to the employer's posting. That is where the applicant tracking system (ATS) records your application.
2. Match the posting's words honestly. Use the job title and key skills from the posting where they are true for you, in plain text with standard headings. ATS software and recruiters both scan for them.
3. State your location and work authorisation at the top of your CV, so a recruiter can see at once that you fit a US-only or country-limited role.
4. Show you have worked remotely. Name the tools, the time zones and the results, not just "remote".
5. Apply early. Each company page shows the newest roles first, and a Pro alert can email new roles to you daily.

Want a second pair of eyes? Our written CV review checks your CV against a target role, and a 30-minute remote job strategy call helps you choose where to aim.

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Sources

All links opened and checked on 1 Nov 2026. Figures are as published by each source on the date shown; we did not run our own benchmarks.

1. Remotely Scaled: remote jobs at big tech companies (live data), checked 1 Nov 2026
2. Microsoft: Flexible work update (Amy Coleman, 9 Sep 2025), checked 1 Nov 2026
3. GeekWire: Microsoft's new RTO policy starts Feb. 23, checked 1 Nov 2026
4. Amazon: Andy Jassy's message on return to office, checked 1 Nov 2026
5. Amazon Jobs: How we hire, checked 1 Nov 2026
6. Amazon Jobs: The interview loop, checked 1 Nov 2026
7. Amazon: Interview guide (STAR method and Leadership Principles), checked 1 Nov 2026
8. California Labor Code section 432.3 (pay scale in job postings), checked 1 Nov 2026
9. California DIR: Equal Pay Act FAQ, checked 1 Nov 2026
10. EUR-Lex: summary of the EU Pay Transparency Directive (EU) 2023/970, checked 1 Nov 2026