Senior Mobile Engineer (Instrumentation SDK, iOS)

Grafana; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Health coverage

L&D stipend

Remote work

Coworking space allowance

Headspace subscription

EAP program

Parental leave

Open standards

Job summary

Grafana is seeking a skilled Mobile Engineer to build and evolve mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS, with strong performance, stability, and developer experience in mind. You will own end-to-end projects, design features like session tracking and crash reporting, and collaborate across teams to enable full-stack observability.

The role emphasizes OpenTelemetry familiarity, cross-platform capabilities, and contributions to observability OSS.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs or platform libraries for external developers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong mobile engineering experience with iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and optionally Android (Kotlin/Java).
• Experience with performance-sensitive code and pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or contributions to OpenTelemetry SDKs/telemetry libraries.
• Experience with mobile security, privacy, or platform integration challenges.
• Contributions to OpenTelemetry, crash reporting libraries, or other observability OSS.
• Experience with cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter) or bindings/bridges.
• Prior work on crash aggregation, session replay, or sampling for mobile telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS; prioritize performance and developer experience.
• Design and ship SDK features such as session tracking, crash reporting, and OpenTelemetry integrations.
• Own projects end-to-end from conception through delivery and maintenance.
• Break complex problems into incremental deliverables and iterate quickly.
• Ensure quality with automated tests, CI, and documentation; maintain backwards compatibility.
• Collaborate across backend, frontend, product, and solutions engineering for cohesive workflows.
• Engage with the open-source community; review PRs and guide external contributors.
• Mentor teammates and contribute to technical design discussions and roadmaps.

Skills

Mobile SDKs experience

iOS Swift/Obj-C

Performance-sensitive code

OpenTelemetry familiarity

Cross-platform frameworks

OpenTelemetry contributions

Crash reporting / observability OSS

Binding/bridges native

Session replay / sampling

Job description

• Grafana Observability builds end-to-end observability that spans application, infrastructure, database, browser, and mobile. Our Mobile Observability initiative gives mobile developers first-class instrumentation SDKs that capture traces, metrics, logs, crashes, and user sessions
• Our solutions aim to be tightly integrated with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud. We’re building high-performance, low-overhead SDKs that make it easy for teams to connect mobile signals to backend and infra telemetry for true full-stack visibility
• Build and evolve mobile instrumentation SDKs for iOS (Swift / Obj-C), 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

Benefits

• Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
• Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
• Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
• Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
• Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
• Choice of tech: There’s no one‑size‑fits‑all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
• Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
• Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
• Paid parental leave: Grafana offers paid parental leave to all eligible new parents. This offers Grafanistas time to bond with and care for their children in the first year after birth or adoption

We value open standards, great developer experience, and doing the hard engineering needed to ship reliable software at scale. You may not meet every requirement below. If this role excites you, please raise your handYou’re a motivated self-starter with a bias toward action and the ability to run with poorly defined scopes. You can operate autonomously while being highly collaborativeCoachable, customer-focused, and passionate about developer experience, you can do more than code: you write docs, mentor others, and shape roadmapsPragmatic and comfortable navigating ambiguity: you prioritize progress over perfection and iterate quickly based on feedbackComfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed teamDemonstrated experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs, platform libraries, or other developer-facing platform code used by external developersExcellent written and verbal communicationStrong mobile engineering experience: with iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and, optionally, Android (Kotlin/Java)Experience working with performance‑sensitive code (startup time, memory, network efficiency) and making pragmatic tradeoffsFamiliarity with OpenTelemetry (instrumentation, SDKs, collectors) or experience contributing to/maintaining OTel SDKs or similar telemetry librariesExperience with mobile security, privacy, or platform integration challengesContributions to OpenTelemetry, crash reporting libraries, or other observability OSSExperience with cross‑platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter) or building native bindings/bridgesPrior work on crash aggregation, session replay, or sampling for mobile telemetry