Most "best remote companies" lists just count job postings—the ones with the biggest hiring sprees always win. We analyzed fully remote companies using our REMOTE Score methodology (a 0-100 benchmark for actual remote culture quality, not job volume) to find the 20 organizations that are genuinely building distributed teams at scale.
GitLab literally wrote the book on remote work—their handbook runs 2,000+ pages and is studied at Harvard and INSEAD. With 2,400 employees across 65+ countries and a decade of async-first operations, they've proven that all-remote scales.
Grafana has been fully distributed since day one—no offices, no exceptions. Their observability-first culture extends inward: they're as rigorous about measuring team health and async collaboration as they are about uptime.
Deel built the world's payroll infrastructure for distributed teams—and runs on the same principles internally. With 6,000 employees across dozens of countries and transparent geo-based pay, they practice what they sell.
Ashby is building next-gen recruiting software with a team that's remote-first and growing fast—79% LinkedIn headcount growth in a year. At 354 employees, they're still small enough for async culture to run deep.
## How We Ranked These Companies Our rankings consider multiple factors weighted by importance: 1. **REMOTE Score (40%)** - Our proprietary measure of remote work maturity (0-100), evaluating async culture, geographic distribution, and work-life practices 2. **Certification Status (25%)** - Verified and certified companies receive priority—we manually review remote claims, not just count job postings 3. **Active Hiring (20%)** - Live job count signals current growth and opportunity 4. **Data Completeness (15%)** - Enriched profiles with benefits, tech stack, and culture data rank higher Unlike competitors who rank by job volume (rewarding mass hiring over quality culture), we evaluate what actually matters: whether a company has built remote work into their operating DNA.
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Headquartered in Berlin but built for a global team, Camunda's 580 employees span continents and time zones. Their process automation platform eliminates bottlenecks—and their remote culture reflects that same bias toward unblocking people.
Huntress protects businesses from cyber threats while operating as a fully distributed team of 750—growing 41% in the past year. Their remote-first model is deliberate: recruit the best security talent regardless of geography.
Supabase runs no offices—130 people building an open-source Firebase alternative entirely in async, across a company that grew 107% in a year. Their remote-native operating model means every hire works the same way, anywhere.
Zapier went remote in 2011—before it was a trend or a pandemic necessity. Fourteen years of async-first operations with 800 employees globally means their remote culture isn't an experiment. It's institutional knowledge.
Circle's 160-person team spans 30+ countries, with regular international offsites keeping the global community tight. For a platform built to connect people, their internal culture walks the talk—distributed by design, close-knit by intention.
PostHog grew 131% while staying at 120 people, distributed across 20+ countries—no fluff, radical transparency baked in. Their open-source DNA carries into how they operate: async by default, documentation-first.
Nearform's 480 consultants average three years of tenure—rare in services. Ireland-headquartered but globally distributed, they've built a remote culture strong enough that people actually stay. That retention signal matters.
Superside runs creative production across 60 countries and 13 time zones—not as a logistics challenge, but as their competitive advantage. When your design team never sleeps, you don't need proximity. You need systems, trust, and async muscle.
Hugging Face is the open-source backbone of the AI revolution—and their 600-person team operates with the same decentralized ethos they champion in machine learning. Distributed globally and collaborative by default.
Monarch grew 180% while keeping their team at 175 people and fully distributed. In fintech—a sector still addicted to office mandates—that kind of growth without a headquarters is a signal. Fast, focused, and trust-based.
Brave built a privacy-first browser for users who don't want to be tracked—and runs a fully remote team on the same principles: no surveillance, no presence theater. A lean, distributed team on one of the internet's most principled missions.
Kit (formerly ConvertKit) has been remote since 2013, powering 600,000+ creators. With 170 employees distributed globally, their culture has had more than a decade to mature—and it shows in how thoughtfully they've refined the way they work.
DuckDuckGo pays everyone the same regardless of location—global pay parity, full stop. For a privacy search engine built on the principle that your data shouldn't be exploited, 335 employees under a single transparent pay standard is exactly on-brand.
