SSH & Remote Development Engineer

JetBrainsGermany5 days ago

Full-timeRemote FriendlyEngineering, Information Technology

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About The Team

The IntelliJ Platform DevEnv team is a platform team focused on heterogeneous development environments. We build APIs that let JetBrains IDEs work with code in Docker containers, WSL distributions, and on remote SSH hosts.

We are currently looking for an SSH & Remote Development Engineer. If selected for the position, your main focus will be on SSH support – making IDEs work seamlessly over SSH connections to remote hosts.

Your work in this role will focus on the following three key areas:

OpenSSH integration – making our products work seamlessly over SSH connections.
EEL API development – our experimental platform API for working with remote execution environments (Docker, WSL, SSH, etc.).
IJent – a lightweight Rust agent that runs on remote hosts and handles file system operations, process execution, and terminal sessions.

In addition to the above, this role also involves designing new APIs, conducting extensive optimization work (including network protocols, caching, and file transfers), and solving challenging problems at the intersection of networking, distributed systems, and IDE infrastructure.

OpenSSH Integration

What you'll work on:

Reusing OpenSSH as a transport layer for remote operations
Optimizing file transfers over high-latency connections
Debugging connection issues, timeouts, and reconnections

Eel Api

Implementing SSH support for EEL
Optimizing performance for slow connections
Handling platform differences (Linux, macOS, and Windows on the remote side)
Working on file system operations, process execution, and path handling

IJent Agent (Rust)

Extending IJent with new features
Optimizing performance (file watching and bulk operations)
Fixing IntelliJ platform-specific issues

Technologies You’ll Be Using

Java/Kotlin – main codebase, EEL API
Rust – IJent agent
gRPC – IDE ↔ agent communication

We’ll be happy to have you on our team if you:

Have strong Java or Kotlin experience
Possess a solid understanding of network protocols
Are comfortable with low-level debugging (network, operating systems)

We’ll Be Especially Thrilled If You

Have IntelliJ plugin development experience
Can read and write basic Rust (or are willing to learn)
Have a systems programming background in Linux or Windows

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