
Staff Mobile Engineer – Instrumentation SDK, iOS/Android
Grafana Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £103,958 - £124,750 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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.
- Break large, ambiguous problems into incremental deliverables: design modular solutions, ship MVPs, gather feedback, iterate quickly.
- Ensure quality: 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.
- Mentor teammates, participate in technical design discussions and help shape the mobile observability roadmap.
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.
- Coachable, customer-focused, and passionate about developer experience, with skills beyond coding: writing docs, mentoring others, and shaping roadmaps.
- Pragmatic and comfortable navigating ambiguity: prioritizing progress over perfection and iterating quickly based on feedback.
Benefits
- 100% Remote, Global Culture
- Scaling Organization
- Transparent Communication
- Innovation-Driven
- Open Source Roots
- Empowered Teams
- Career Growth Pathways
- Approachable Leadership
- Passionate People
- In-Person onboarding
- Balance is Key: global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum including Grafana Shutdown Days
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Hard Skills & Tools
iOSSwiftObj-CAndroidKotlinJavaOpenTelemetrymobile SDKsperformance-sensitive codeautomated tests
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationcoachablecustomer-focusedmentoringshaping roadmapsnavigating ambiguityiterating quicklycollaborationproblem-solving