Staff Mobile Engineer (iOS/Android, Observability)

TL;DR

Staff Mobile Engineer (iOS/Android, Observability): Building and evolving mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS and Android, with an accent on performance, stability, and developer experience. Focus on designing features like session tracking, crash reporting, sampling strategies, and OpenTelemetry integrations, while ensuring quality and engaging with the open-source community.

Location: Remote (Spain, Germany, UK, or Sweden)

Salary: €109,709–€131,651

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source company providing observability solutions with its Grafana LGTM Stack to over 3,000 companies and 20M users.

What you will do

• Build and evolve mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS (Swift / Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin / Java), prioritizing performance, stability, and a great developer experience.
• Design and ship SDK features such as session tracking, crash reporting, sampling strategies, automatic context propagation, and OpenTelemetry integrations.
• Own projects end-to-end, breaking large, ambiguous problems into incremental deliverables.
• Ensure software quality through automated tests, CI, documentation, and smooth, backwards-compatible upgrade paths.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, frontend, product, and solutions engineering to ensure cohesive end-to-end observability workflows.
• Engage with the open-source community: review PRs, discuss design proposals, and help guide external contributors.

Requirements

• Strong mobile engineering experience (one or both): iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java).
• Demonstrated 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 (instrumentation, SDKs, collectors) or experience contributing to/maintaining OTel SDKs or similar telemetry libraries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• 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 with talent from around the world.
• Opportunity to tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent communication, open decision-making, and an innovation-driven culture.
• All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), providing every team member ownership in hirify.global' success.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
• Access to modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow.