About the job
At JetBrains, we are passionate about code. Since our inception in 2000, we have dedicated ourselves to developing the strongest and most effective developer tools available. Our innovative solutions automate routine checks and corrections, accelerating production and empowering developers to innovate, explore, and create.
About the Initiative
JetBrains is transforming from standalone developer tools to a unified, AI-native platform for software development.
AI is evolving from a mere assistant within the editor to an essential participant in software planning, building, reviewing, and operating across teams and organizations. This evolution presents new challenges that cannot be addressed by individual tools alone, including governance, security, cost management, observability, and cooperation between humans and autonomous agents.
Our mission is to establish a platform that facilitates the adoption of AI in software development in a structured, scalable, and economically efficient manner, without confining companies to closed ecosystems.
We are constructing a foundation that unifies developer workflows, team collaboration, and organizational oversight into a coherent system.
This platform will act as the execution and governance layer for AI-driven development, tightly integrated with developer tools while designed for cross-team, product, and environmental compatibility.
This initiative represents a long-term strategic investment for JetBrains and is a cornerstone of our vision for the future of software development.
The Role
We are seeking a Principal Engineer (JetBrains Cloud Platform, Developer Experience) to spearhead significant enhancements to the development experience across the JetBrains Cloud Platform (JCP).
This position is pivotal in enhancing the productivity of JCP engineers through improvements to build systems, CI/CD pipelines, local development workflows, tooling infrastructure, and AI pipelines. You will oversee the developer experience from the local development, build, and testing stages to the transition of code through CI to production. Given the rapid growth of this platform, numerous workflows and processes are still in development. You will define what an exceptional development experience entails and guide the organization toward achieving it.
As part of our team, you will:
- Develop and implement strategies for enhancing the developer experience across the entire JCP platform.
- Optimize build systems (such as Gradle and Nx) for improved speed, caching, and reliable reproducibility at scale.
- Establish AI development pipelines to facilitate innovation.

