Foster City, California; Marlton, New Jersey; Remote, United States Hybrid

JetBrains is hiring a Backend Customer Success Engineer (Kotlin Ecosystem)

About the Role

This position involves working closely with customers to resolve technical challenges in the Kotlin ecosystem, providing deep technical support, and contributing to product improvements based on real-world usage and feedback.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues reported by users of Kotlin-related tools
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to communicate customer needs and feedback
  • Analyze customer workflows to identify areas for product enhancement
  • Develop backend solutions and integrations to improve tool reliability
  • Document technical problems and their resolutions for internal and external use
  • Support the creation of debugging tools for customer-facing teams
  • Engage in root cause analysis of reported software behaviors
  • Assist in testing and validating fixes for reported issues
  • Provide input on product documentation based on support experience
  • Work with telemetry data to understand usage patterns and failure points
  • Contribute to internal knowledge bases used by support and development teams
  • Help onboard enterprise customers to Kotlin-based platforms
  • Guide customers through migration paths and compatibility concerns
  • Troubleshoot integration issues between tools in the ecosystem
  • Advocate for usability improvements based on customer pain points
  • Participate in incident response for critical customer outages
  • Evaluate new features from a supportability perspective
  • Assist in the development of automated diagnostic utilities
  • Coordinate with product managers on prioritization of customer issues
  • Deliver technical workshops or sessions for customer teams
  • Monitor community forums for emerging technical trends
  • Improve feedback loops between support and core development
  • Investigate performance bottlenecks in backend systems
  • Support the rollout of updates in customer environments
  • Maintain awareness of evolving JVM and Kotlin language features

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Flexible work arrangements available, including remote options

Team

Part of a global team focused on developer tools and ecosystem support

Why This Role Matters

  • Your work directly impacts how developers experience Kotlin tools in production environments.
  • You bridge the gap between customer challenges and product evolution.

What You’ll Work With

  • Kotlin and Java backend services
  • Distributed systems and microservices
  • Logging, monitoring, and tracing platforms
  • Customer-reported issue databases
  • Internal developer tools and dashboards

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