Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (AI-Native Software Development )

About the role

JetBrains has been building developer tools since 2000, and today, 420 of the Fortune 500 rely on our products. As a Lead FDE, you will work directly with these customers to deploy JetBrains Central into complex enterprise environments and help early adopters move from experimental AI usage to governed, scalable AI-native development.

You will act as a trusted advisor to customer engineering teams and consulting partners, mentor other FDEs, and be responsible for our most complex deployments. Your work in the field will directly influence how our platform evolves and how enterprises adopt agent-driven development.

This role combines consulting, architecture, and hands-on engineering. It is often a strong fit for engineers who have previously served as Principal or Staff Engineers, Heads of Engineering, CTOs, or Solutions Architects – and who want to stay close to both customers and complex technical systems.

What you'll do:

• Architect and manage deployments of JetBrains Central into enterprise development environments, CI/CD systems, and internal developer platforms.
• Mentor and support other FDEs, sharing architectural expertise and scaling the team's deployment practices.
• Drive organizations' transition from ad-hoc AI experimentation to governed, AI-native development workflows.
• Help organizations establish their own AI governance, including security policies, access management, and data privacy controls.
• Enable observability for AI-driven development, helping organizations understand their AI usage and code-generation patterns, as well as AI’s impact on productivity.
• Design sustainable AI adoption strategies, including for usage controls and cost visibility across multiple model providers.
• Integrate our cloud-based agent execution layer so AI agents run securely and at scale.
• Partner closely with JetBrains product teams, shaping the platform based on real-world deployments and customer feedback.
• Create delivery frameworks and train JetBrains partners to deliver the desired scope of service.

You will thrive in this role if you are:

• Experienced in enterprise software deployment and integration.
• Skilled in architecting complex systems and mentoring engineering teams.
• Passionate about AI-native development and helping organizations adopt it.