Staff Mobile Engineer: Instrumentation SDK (iOS/Android) - Observability

TL;DR

Staff Mobile Engineer (Instrumentation SDK): Building and evolving mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS and Android, prioritizing performance, stability, and developer experience. Focus on designing SDK features such as session tracking, crash reporting, automatic context propagation, and OpenTelemetry integrations.

Location: Must be based in Spain, Germany, the UK or Sweden

Salary: €94,025 - €112,830

Company

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse providing tools for observability, including metrics, logs, and traces.

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, and OpenTelemetry integrations.
• Ensure quality through automated tests, CI, documentation, and smooth upgrade paths.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with backend, frontend, product, and solutions engineering.
• Engage with the open-source community and mentor teammates.

Requirements

• Strong mobile engineering experience (iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java)).
• Experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs or platform libraries.
• Experience working with performance-sensitive code.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry.
• 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).
• 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
• Scaling Organization with transparent communication.
• Innovation-Driven with empowered teams and career growth pathways.
• Passionate People with approachable leadership.
• In-Person onboarding to learn about the company.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.