Senior Mobile Engineer, Instrumentation SDK, iOS

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS utilizing Swift and Objective-C.

• Design and implement session tracking, crash reporting, sampling strategies, automatic context propagation, and OpenTelemetry integrations.

• Take ownership of projects from start to finish.

• Decompose complex problems into modular solutions, MVPs, incremental deliverables, and iterations based on feedback.

• Maintain quality through automated testing, continuous integration, documentation, and backward-compatible upgrade paths.

• Collaborate with backend, frontend, product, and solutions engineering teams on comprehensive observability workflows.

• Interact with the open-source community by reviewing pull requests, discussing design proposals, and guiding external contributors.

• Mentor colleagues, engage in technical design discussions, and contribute to shaping the mobile observability roadmap.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive mobile engineering experience with iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and optionally Android (Kotlin/Java).

• Proven experience in building or maintaining mobile SDKs, platform libraries, or developer-facing platform code utilized by external developers.

• Proficiency with performance-sensitive code, including startup time, memory usage, and network efficiency.

• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry or experience in contributing to or maintaining OTel SDKs or similar telemetry libraries.

• Comfortable working within a fully remote, globally distributed team.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to operate autonomously and collaboratively in ambiguous situations.

• Customer-oriented and passionate about enhancing the developer experience.

• Experience in writing documentation, mentoring others, and shaping strategic roadmaps.

• Bonus: Contributions to OpenTelemetry, crash-reporting libraries, or observability open source projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with React Native, Flutter, native bindings/bridges, mobile security, privacy, platform integration, crash aggregation, session replay, or mobile telemetry sampling.

🏝️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• Fully remote, global culture.

• Opportunities for career growth.

• In-person onboarding experience.

• 30 days of annual leave each year.

• 3 annual leave days dedicated to Grafana Shutdown Days.

• Open communication and regular updates company-wide.

• Independence and support to deliver outstanding work and explore new ideas.

• Empowered, high-trust, low-ego organizational culture.

• Approachable and transparent leadership.