Staff Mobile Engineer – Session Replay

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Act as the technical lead for mobile capture and playback across the device, ingestion pathway, and player.

• Take full ownership of the on-device replay library from start to finish, beginning with Android and expanding to iOS.

• Create masking and consent mechanisms to ensure sensitive data remains on the device.

• Enhance startup times, UI responsiveness, battery life, memory usage, network efficiency, and disk consumption on actual devices.

• Develop integration adapters that link replay functionalities to active RUM sessions, sampling choices, and screen/navigation transitions.

• Work closely with Frontend and Mobile Observability teams on aspects such as capture, upload, storage, inactivity management, timeline player, and mobile session/replay experiences.

• Establish automated testing protocols, CI practices, device and OS compatibility, and backward-compatible SDK upgrade strategies.

• Directly interact with customers through calls, structured feedback, and support for instrumentation and adoption.

• Mentor fellow engineers and foster technical leadership within the team.

• Develop Mobile Session Replay capabilities for Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native, and OpenTelemetry mobile SDKs within Grafana Cloud.

⛳️ Requirements

• Applicants must be located in the US or Canada, preferably in the Eastern or Central time zones.

• Extensive native mobile engineering experience with Android (Kotlin/Java) or iOS (Swift/Obj-C).

• Proven experience in building or maintaining mobile SDKs or platform libraries utilized by external developers.

• Familiarity with performance-sensitive code, focusing on startup time, memory, battery life, network efficiency, and background execution limits.

• Knowledge of mobile media and rendering processes, including screen capture, frames or bitmaps, as well as video encoding or handling.

• Capability to take ownership of a product from inception to execution in ambiguous problem areas and operate independently.

• User-focused approach to comprehending customer context and objectives.

• Understanding of privacy and security concerning user devices, particularly in the handling of sensitive data.

• Experience incorporating AI tools into engineering workflows.

• Comfortable in a remote-first, globally distributed work environment.

• Proficient in both written and spoken English.

• A collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful demeanor.

• Openness to learning and contributing across both Android and iOS platforms over time.

• Bonus: Previous experience with mobile session replay, screen recording, or mobile telemetry sampling.

• Bonus: Familiarity with video encoding, on-device masking/redaction, rrweb, OpenTelemetry, crash reporting, observability tools, React Native, Flutter, Go, or TypeScript.

🏝️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• Company-funded budget for the use of modern AI coding assistants.

• Access to cutting-edge models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• In-person onboarding experience.

• 30 days of annual leave each year.

• Three annual leave days designated for Grafana Shutdown Days.