How to Develop on a Remote SSH Server from My Macbook

I am not good with Mac, and it does not seem to support many of the python libraries I want, hence the question. 

Local Device: Macbook Pro

Target Machine: Remote GCP Instance (Ubuntu 22.04)

Local IDE: Pycharm Professional Edition 2024.3 (on the Macbook)

Desired Behaviour: 

• Open and edit a project on the GCP instance with full Pycharm features (warnings, inspections etc.), basically, allowing me to forget that I am on a headless instance. 

Constraints:

The security posture does not allow 

1. SSHFS to mount a remote directory as local 
2. Egress to jetbrains paths such as https://download.jetbrains.com from the remote Ubuntu instance 

So basically, with these two constraints

1. Prevents mounting it as local
2. Prevents the remote IDE 

What I have done

• Downloaded JetBrainsGateway-2024.3.tar.gz
• `Put` that in the GCP Ubuntu instance via sftp 

So any workaround to have the desired behaviour I want? In particular, I looked through the instructions to set up the remote development environment, but cannot figure out a way to download all relevant tar.gz to scp into the remote. 

Also, any other pycharm feature that can help me here?