15,880 remote jobs at US and European tech companies. 3 in 100 are open to India.

Everyone wants the remote job at the US or European tech company — the one that pays in dollars or euros. And every one of those ads answers a question most people only read at the end: where are you allowed to live while you do this job? If the answer isn't your country, the rest of the ad doesn't matter.

So I counted. RoleSense reads every job posted on public company hiring systems — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and others — and records where each remote role lets you live. On September 28, 2026 that was 15,880 fully-remote jobs at 1,359 companies, mostly US and European tech companies. Here's how many of them are open to you, country by country.

What this is, and what it isn't. RoleSense tracks mostly US and European tech companies on purpose. So these numbers tell you what those employers are open to. They don't count every remote job in the world: an Indian or Nigerian company hiring remotely inside its own country is mostly not in our data. Read “485 jobs open to India” as “485 of the remote jobs at these companies,” not “only 485 remote jobs exist for Indians.”

94% of these remote jobs limit you to named countries. About 3 in 100 are open to someone living in India. Fewer than 1 in 200 are open to Nigeria, Pakistan or Bangladesh. Fewer than 1 in 100 hire from anywhere.

How many of these jobs are open to you

Remote jobs whose list of allowed countries includes yours, and what share of all 15,880 that is.

At these companies, a US resident can apply to more than half of the remote jobs. Someone in India can apply to about 3 in 100; someone in Nigeria, Pakistan or Bangladesh to fewer than 1 in 200. Same laptop, same skills, same internet. The difference is the address.

The table leaves out 892 ads that limit you by timezone instead of country, and 44 that name no limit we could read. Some of those may be open to you too — more on them below.

Outside the top ten, a few employers are the whole list

For the US, the three biggest remote employers in our data post 6% of the jobs. The pool is deep, and no single company decides it. Further down the table, it gets thin fast:

One fintech, Moniepoint, posts more than half of all remote jobs open to Nigerians in our data. If you live in Lagos, Nairobi or Karachi and you want a job at an international tech company, that changes the strategy. Don't scroll a job board hoping for volume. Find the handful of companies that hire in your country and watch their careers pages directly.

Bangladesh needs a caveat of its own: 9 of its 23 ads come from one company offering “virtual intern” and “online sales” positions. The real number of professional remote roles open from Bangladesh is closer to a dozen.

The shape of the fence

85 different countries appear as allowed locations somewhere in the data. The most common multi-country list is US + Canada: the fence gets one neighbor wider. Only 47 ads name ten or more countries.

When it's a clock, it's mostly an American one

The 892 timezone-limited ads sound like the answer for everyone outside the US. They aren't a passport check, after all. But look at which clocks they ask for: more than half want overlap with the Americas, most often US Eastern. About one in five want European hours. Only about 1 in 30 ask for Asia-Pacific hours. The rest don't say which timezone.

If you're in Europe, Africa or Latin America, these ads are worth a real look: a few hours of overlap is often workable from Lagos or São Paulo. From India or Bangladesh, a US Eastern overlap means evenings every day. That's possible, but it's a choice to make before you apply, not after the offer.

How sure are we about the fence?

Honestly: sure enough about the direction, less sure about the last few points of the percentage. This matters, so here's the detail.

We split the country-limited ads into two groups. In about 53% the limit is stated outright — an ATS location like “Remote - US”, or a sentence like “you must be based in Canada” or “authorized to work in the UK.” In the rest, the ad says “remote” and lists an office location, a US-only benefit like a 401(k), or a salary in one currency, and our pipeline reads the job's country as the limit. That reading is usually right — companies hire where they have a legal entity — but it's an inference, not a quote. 53% is a floor: when we read a sample of the second group by hand, several stated the limit in wording our pattern didn't catch.

The inference cuts one way, which is why we don't give a precise number for “work from anywhere”. A worldwide ad that also lists a headquarters city can be read as limited to that country. We found 19 ads whose location literally says “Anywhere,” “Global” or “Worldwide,” and our pipeline limited every one of them to a single country. Counting those, plus ads whose text genuinely invites applicants from any country, puts true hire-from-anywhere ads at fewer than 1 in 100. We're fixing the pipeline so it can label them — they're the most valuable ads on the board for anyone outside the US.

What changed since our August study

In August we published a similar count over 14,679 remote ads. Since then we found and fixed three bugs in how we decide whether a job is remote at all: some hybrid and office jobs had been labelled remote. The board also grew. The picture is the same; the numbers moved:

Two claims from August we're withdrawing. We said 98.9% of limits were stated in the ad text; as the section above explains, about half are stated and the rest are inferred. And we said exactly 0.2% of ads had no limit; our pipeline couldn't label a worldwide ad at the time, so that number measured the pipeline, not the market. “Fewer than 1 in 100” is what the data supports.

What to do with this

• Read the location line first. Before the title, before the salary. If the ad doesn't name your country, or a region that contains it, move on.
• Outside the top ten, hunt companies, not ads. When ten or fifteen employers make up your whole list, a list of their careers pages beats any job board. Check them every week.
• Take timezone ads seriously — and do the math. They're the only 6% of these jobs that don't check your passport. Work out the daily overlap before you apply.
• Treat “work from anywhere” as a claim to verify. It's rare, and it often means “anywhere we have payroll.” Look for the countries or the employer of record in the ad before you invest an evening.

Methodology, briefly

• Data: the 15,880 fully-remote ads among 72,026 active jobs indexed by RoleSense on September 28, 2026, from 1,359 companies on public ATS boards. Hybrid roles are excluded.
• Allowed countries: extracted from each ad's full text and ATS metadata by the same pipeline that powers RoleSense matching. Where the ad states nothing, the pipeline uses the job's own country — see “How sure are we” above.
• “Open to you” means the ad's list of allowed countries includes yours. Timezone-limited and unlabelled ads are counted separately, not added in.

Limitations to call out:

1. This is the set of jobs RoleSense indexes, and it's chosen: mostly US and European tech companies on modern ATSes. Every country share in this post is a share of that pool. A global count, including local employers in India, Nigeria or Brazil, would give those countries far more remote jobs and shrink the US share. What it wouldn't change is how the international employers in this data limit where you can live.
2. Small numbers are fragile. At 18 or 23 ads, one company opening or closing a few roles moves a country's count by a third. Read the bottom of the table as an order of magnitude.
3. Ads, not positions: a company advertising one role in three country-specific ads appears three times. That's how you experience it as an applicant.
4. A remote label is still a judgement. Some ads we count as fully remote describe a flexible or “work anywhere” policy that is closer to hybrid. We fixed the largest source of this error in September; some remains.

Closing

Remote work removed the commute. It didn't remove the border. At the US and European tech companies most people are hoping to join remotely, half the jobs stop at the US border. For job seekers in most of the world, those companies don't offer 15,880 remote jobs — they offer a few hundred, or a few dozen, from a short list of employers. That isn't a reason to stop looking. It's a reason to look in the right places, and to stop spending evenings on ads that were never open to you.

More RoleSense research: The August remote-fence study → · Inside 49,000 job application forms →