40 Highest Paying Remote Jobs ($150K+) in 2026

Kit, formerly ConvertKit, is the email-first operating system for creators who mean business: audience growth, email automation, and digital product sales in one platform for authors, podcasters, YouTubers, and coaches. Founded in 2013, Kit has stayed 100% independent, with no plans to sell, raise venture funding, or go public.

Kit, formerly ConvertKit, is the email-first operating system for creators who mean business: audience growth, email automation, and digital product sales in one platform for authors, podcasters, YouTubers, and coaches. Founded in 2013, Kit has stayed 100% independent, with no plans to sell, raise venture funding, or go public.

Dropbox began as cloud storage and now sells file collaboration tools, including Dropbox Dash, which adds AI-powered universal search across a company's content. Dropbox was also one of the first major tech companies to go remote-first, coining the term "Virtual First" in October 2020 and rebuilding the company around it.

Customer.io is a marketing automation platform built on real-time behavioral data. Companies segment audiences by personal attributes and browsing history, then trigger email and push messages on what someone actually did. Founded in 2012, it runs as a fully remote company and hit $100M ARR in 2025.

Ashby is all-in-one recruiting software that combines applicant tracking, analytics, workflows, and automation in a single platform. It is built for scaling companies running high-volume hiring, and is used by teams at Notion, Snowflake, Deel, Shopify, and Figma.

Join from anywhere! As a fully remote company since 2012, Zapier excels in building a distributed work culture, fostering innovation, and supporting diversity and inclusion. They connect over 7,000 online tools, empowering users to streamline workflows and enhance productivity. Recognized for work-life balance, Zapier offers a nurturing environment for personal and professional growth.

Customer.io is a marketing automation platform built on real-time behavioral data. Companies segment audiences by personal attributes and browsing history, then trigger email and push messages on what someone actually did. Founded in 2012, it runs as a fully remote company and hit $100M ARR in 2025.

Grafana Labs builds an open observability stack that brings metrics, logs, traces, and profiles into one platform. The company stewards Grafana, the dashboarding standard used at Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, and eBay, alongside open source projects like Loki, Mimir, Tempo, k6, and Pyroscope.

Dropbox began as cloud storage and now sells file collaboration tools, including Dropbox Dash, which adds AI-powered universal search across a company's content. Dropbox was also one of the first major tech companies to go remote-first, coining the term "Virtual First" in October 2020 and rebuilding the company around it.

Join from anywhere! As a fully remote company since 2012, Zapier excels in building a distributed work culture, fostering innovation, and supporting diversity and inclusion. They connect over 7,000 online tools, empowering users to streamline workflows and enhance productivity. Recognized for work-life balance, Zapier offers a nurturing environment for personal and professional growth.

Grafana Labs builds an open observability stack that brings metrics, logs, traces, and profiles into one platform. The company stewards Grafana, the dashboarding standard used at Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, and eBay, alongside open source projects like Loki, Mimir, Tempo, k6, and Pyroscope.

Circle is building the world’s leading AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses. It makes it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

RevenueCat is subscription infrastructure for app developers. Its API and SDKs power in-app purchases, manage customer data, and grow revenue across iOS, Android, and the web, for everyone from a solo dev in Brazil to the OpenAI mobile team. Founded in 2017, this Y Combinator company runs fully remote with a stated mission of helping developers make more money.

Circle is building the world’s leading AI-powered, all-in-one platform for digital businesses. It makes it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

Tremendous is a payouts platform that lets businesses send money, prepaid cards, and gift cards to recipients anywhere, who choose how they get paid. Researchers at Google and MIT, marketers at Casper and Lyft, and public institutions like the Federal Reserve Bank use it. It has been founder- and employee-owned since buying out its original investors in 2013.

Tremendous is a payouts platform that lets businesses send money, prepaid cards, and gift cards to recipients anywhere, who choose how they get paid. Researchers at Google and MIT, marketers at Casper and Lyft, and public institutions like the Federal Reserve Bank use it. It has been founder- and employee-owned since buying out its original investors in 2013.

Ashby is all-in-one recruiting software that combines applicant tracking, analytics, workflows, and automation in a single platform. It is built for scaling companies running high-volume hiring, and is used by teams at Notion, Snowflake, Deel, Shopify, and Figma.

Elastic builds search, observability, and security software for developers and enterprise technology teams. Its platform uses Elasticsearch to retrieve and analyze data, supporting applications from website search to infrastructure monitoring and threat detection.

Quora builds products that democratize knowledge and AI access for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Their flagship Q&A platform connects curious minds with expertise across every topic, while Poe brings the world's leading AI models together in one accessible interface. Remote-first since 2020, Quora operates as a truly distributed company with "headquarters in the cloud" and team members across 15+ countries.

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform delivered as a single application, covering planning, source code management, CI/CD, security scanning, and monitoring in one tool. The company is all-remote with no offices anywhere, and its public handbook documenting how the company works has become a widely used reference for distributed teams.

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform delivered as a single application, covering planning, source code management, CI/CD, security scanning, and monitoring in one tool. The company is all-remote with no offices anywhere, and its public handbook documenting how the company works has become a widely used reference for distributed teams.

Mercury builds financial technology for entrepreneurs and their businesses. It combines access to business banking with software for everyday financial tasks, from paying bills to managing company spending.

Affirm is a consumer finance company offering point-of-sale installment loans that let shoppers pay for purchases over time. Its loans carry no late fees and no compounding interest.

Affirm is a consumer finance company offering point-of-sale installment loans that let shoppers pay for purchases over time. Its loans carry no late fees and no compounding interest.

Mercury builds financial technology for entrepreneurs and their businesses. It combines access to business banking with software for everyday financial tasks, from paying bills to managing company spending.

Thumbtack is a home care app that helps homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them, and who to hire. It pairs personalized guidance and AI tools with a marketplace of local service businesses, covering everything from urgent repairs to seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. Thumbtack was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Camunda builds the orchestration layer that coordinates AI agents, people, and systems across an enterprise's most complex processes, with the governance and auditability to move AI from pilot to production. Founded in 2008, Camunda's platform runs mission-critical workflows at nine of the top 10 global banks. The company is fully remote.

Kong builds API and AI connectivity software, including Kong Gateway, the Konnect platform and an AI Gateway, that lets organizations secure, manage and govern traffic between their APIs, AI models and agents. Founded as Mashape in 2009 by Augusto Marietti and Marco Palladino and spun out as Kong Inc. in 2017, Kong calls itself "The AI Connectivity Company."

Thumbtack is a home care app that helps homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them, and who to hire. It pairs personalized guidance and AI tools with a marketplace of local service businesses, covering everything from urgent repairs to seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. Thumbtack was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Camunda builds the orchestration layer that coordinates AI agents, people, and systems across an enterprise's most complex processes, with the governance and auditability to move AI from pilot to production. Founded in 2008, Camunda's platform runs mission-critical workflows at nine of the top 10 global banks. The company is fully remote.

Monarch is a personal finance platform for budgeting, tracking balances, and growing investments in one place. Co-founded in 2018 by Val Agostino, the first product manager on Mint, the company has been fully remote since well before the pandemic.

Huntress builds managed cybersecurity for the businesses the big security vendors overlook: small businesses, mid-market enterprises, and the managed service providers (MSPs) that support them. Its platform combines managed endpoint detection and response, identity threat detection, SIEM and security awareness training, backed by a 24/7 Security Operations Center.

Monarch is a personal finance platform for budgeting, tracking balances, and growing investments in one place. Co-founded in 2018 by Val Agostino, the first product manager on Mint, the company has been fully remote since well before the pandemic.

Trail of Bits is a security engineering firm that audits code for some of the world's most targeted organizations and approaches the work the way an attacker would. Founded in 2012 by three people with no investment capital, the firm publishes research and builds open-source security tools across software security, reverse engineering, cryptography, blockchain and AI/ML.

Trail of Bits is a security engineering firm that audits code for some of the world's most targeted organizations and approaches the work the way an attacker would. Founded in 2012 by three people with no investment capital, the firm publishes research and builds open-source security tools across software security, reverse engineering, cryptography, blockchain and AI/ML.

Bitwarden is an open source password manager trusted by millions of individuals, teams, and businesses to store and share sensitive credentials. Its differentiator is transparency: the entire codebase is open source, so anyone can inspect exactly how the security works rather than take a vendor's word for it. The product line spans free personal password storage, SSO and identity management for organizations, and a developer-focused secrets manager.

Reddit is the network of communities behind some of the internet's most candid conversations, organized into 100,000+ active subreddits. The defining trait is community-led moderation: each subreddit sets its own rules and culture, with users voting content up or down rather than algorithms deciding.

Twilio turns the world's communications infrastructure into APIs developers can call: voice, SMS, video, and email built into any application. Founded in 2008, it powers customer engagement for companies including Deliveroo, Duolingo, and Toyota. It works remote-first, with global offices kept as an option rather than the default.

Twilio turns the world's communications infrastructure into APIs developers can call: voice, SMS, video, and email built into any application. Founded in 2008, it powers customer engagement for companies including Deliveroo, Duolingo, and Toyota. It works remote-first, with global offices kept as an option rather than the default.

JetBrains builds the IDEs developers actually want to use, from IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm to Rider and WebStorm, alongside the Kotlin language and tools like TeamCity and YouTrack. Private, bootstrapped, and profitable since 2000, they build for developers because they are developers, using their own products to ship the next versions.