Career Ranking
High-Paying Remote Jobs
Remote work and strong pay aren't mutually exclusive — a lot of the highest-leverage knowledge work travels over the internet just fine. These are the best-paid roles in our catalogue that are also strongly remote-friendly: filtered to high remote potential, then ranked by pay.
The roles at the top share a shape — their output is digital and their collaboration can be async, so the value isn't tied to a desk. Pay still tracks with skill and specialisation, not location, which is exactly why these roles let you have both.
- 1Machine Learning Engineer$130K – $380K$185k · 76/100 remote
- 2Cloud Architect$120K – $295K$168k · 78/100 remote
- 3Computer Vision Engineer$115K – $345K$168k · 74/100 remote
- 4MLOps Engineer$115K – $308K$168k · 82/100 remote
- 5Solutions Architect$115K – $285K$168k · 74/100 remote
- 6Site Reliability Engineer$110K – $305K$162k · 76/100 remote
- 7Platform Engineer$110K – $295K$162k · 82/100 remote
- 8Technical Product Manager$110K – $298K$162k · 80/100 remote
- 9Technical Program Manager$105K – $305K$158k · 78/100 remote
- 10Security Engineer$110K – $295K$158k · 70/100 remote
- 11Blockchain Engineer$105K – $325K$158k · 88/100 remote
- 12Data Engineer$105K – $285K$152k · 82/100 remote
- 13Software Engineer$92K – $380K$148k · 88/100 remote
- 14Data Scientist$100K – $265K$145k · 78/100 remote
- 15Backend Engineer$95K – $268K$145k · 84/100 remote
- 16Agency Owner$0K – $595K$145k · 78/100 remote
- 17Product Manager$95K – $265K$142k · 78/100 remote
- 18Developer Advocate$95K – $258K$142k · 88/100 remote
- 19DevOps Engineer$95K – $245K$138k · 78/100 remote
- 20Full-Stack Engineer$88K – $252K$138k · 86/100 remote
- 21Product Marketing Manager$90K – $252K$138k · 78/100 remote
- 22Business Operations Manager$90K – $268K$135k · 74/100 remote
- 23Agile Coach$95K – $232K$135k · 84/100 remote
- 24Mobile Developer$92K – $235K$134k · 80/100 remote
- 25Frontend Engineer$85K – $248K$132k · 88/100 remote
Filtered to strongly remote-friendly roles (remote potential ≥ 70/100), then ranked by median salary. Figures calibrated to public 2024-2026 US labor signals.
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