Staff Mobile Engineer, Grafana Labs

• You’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 collaborative
• 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, you can do more than code: you write docs, mentor others, and shape roadmaps
• Pragmatic and comfortable navigating ambiguity: you prioritize progress over perfection and iterate quickly based on feedback
• You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity

Desirable

• 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
• We value open standards, great developer experience, and doing the hard engineering needed to ship reliable software at scale
• 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
• We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction
• We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards
• You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro)