Outside of a single build node, I highly, highly recommend not using Jenkins. It's just such an unnecessarily complicated beast to manage with modern best practices, you might as well just cobble together your own system, or use a real modern distributed build system. It will take you just as long as going through all the endless bullshit options of trying to force Jenkins to do what you want, but you'll actually have something simple and useful in the end that works (if you choose to).

So much this. I've worked with Jenkins for most of my professional career. Its much better today than what it used to be, but compared to the CI toolings that are now available, using it today makes no sense at all (with a few exceptions, especially when it comes to maven build pipelines).