I think the kind of companies that hire C/C++ engineers are not the same companies that post jobs on rentacoder or whatever it is called today. The companies th

I think the kind of companies that hire C/C++ engineers are not the same companies that post jobs on rentacoder or whatever it is called today. The companies that have remote positions that you can "find over the internet" tends to be small young shops or possibly single persons implementing in PHP, Ruby-on-Rails or similar platforms that offers high productivity for small scale projects (at least in the short run). That are plenty of C/C++ jobs inside banks and telecommunications but they will not advertise remote job opportunities and if they to, they do it thru recruitment agencies or consulting firms that subcontracts to freelancers. However I think it is quite possible to build a relationship with say a departement at telco thru regular consulting that eventually will let you work remotely. It just requires some legwork and that you work on-site in the beginning.