Known for paying top-of-market salaries (often all-cash), Netflix treats data as a first-class citizen. Their “Data Mesh” architecture is legendary.

As the creators of Spark and the Lakehouse architecture, working here means building the tools other data engineers use. Highly remote-friendly.

Coinbase has declared itself a “Remote First” company. They have massive data needs for transaction processing, fraud detection, and crypto-analytics.

Uber’s data scale is immense. They allow approximately 50% of their roles to be fully remote. Great for engineers who love geospatial data.