Staff Mobile Engineer (iOS/Android)

TL;DR

Staff Mobile Engineer (iOS/Android): Building and evolving mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS (Swift / Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin / Java), prioritizing performance, stability, and developer experience. Focus on session tracking, crash reporting, sampling strategies, automatic context propagation, and OpenTelemetry integrations.

Location: Remote (Canada)

Salary: $186,368 - $223,642 CAD

Company

hirify.global helps more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack.

What you will do

• Build and evolve mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS (Swift / Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin / Java).
• Design and ship SDK features such as session tracking, crash reporting, sampling strategies, automatic context propagation, and OpenTelemetry integrations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, frontend, product, and solutions engineering teams.
• Ensure quality through automated tests, CI, documentation, and smooth upgrade paths.
• Engage with the open-source community by reviewing PRs, discussing design proposals, and guiding external contributors.

Requirements

• Strong mobile engineering experience with iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java).
• Experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs, platform libraries, or other developer-facing platform code used by external developers.
• Experience working with performance-sensitive code (startup time, memory, network efficiency) and making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or experience contributing to/maintaining OTel SDKs or similar telemetry libraries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Nice to have

• Contributions to OpenTelemetry, crash reporting libraries, or other observability OSS.
• Experience with cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter) or building native bindings/bridges.
• Experience with mobile security, privacy, or platform integration challenges.
• Prior work on crash aggregation, session replay, or sampling for mobile telemetry.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture, bringing together talent from around the world.
• Transparent communication with open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Defined career growth pathways and opportunities to develop your career.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum + 3 days of Grafana Shutdown Days.