Team Lead Kotlin Infrastructure

Team Lead Kotlin Infrastructure

JetBrains is seeking an engineering leader to lead the Kotlin Infrastructure team, responsible for building and evolving developer infrastructure that enables hundreds of engineers to work efficiently across the Kotlin repository and broader ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive long-term evolution of Kotlin infrastructure alongside a Technical Lead, balancing immediate needs with strategic investments

• Own planning and prioritization of infrastructure initiatives across the organization

• Lead initiatives improving developer productivity and experience in build systems, CI/CD, release infrastructure, and internal tooling

• Coach and support engineers through feedback, mentorship, and hiring decisions

• Guide infrastructure evolution including local development workflows, code review processes, build architecture and performance optimization

• Secure engineering infrastructure through dependency management, reproducible builds, secrets handling, and access controls

• Facilitate cross-team collaboration on platform strategy and engineering workflows

Required Experience:

• Proven track record leading engineering teams or large technical initiatives

• Strong experience with developer infrastructure, build systems, CI/CD, or internal engineering platforms

• Deep understanding of software build systems and engineering workflows at scale

• Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills

• Demonstrated commitment to platform stability, quality, and long-term thinking

Nice-to-Have: TeamCity, Gradle, Kotlin, JVM ecosystem, large monorepositories, or internal developer platforms.