Grafana Labs

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