Senior Mobile Engineer - Instrumentation SDK (iOS)

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. Built on open source and open standards, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability, providing unified visibility across disparate data. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries.

We're scaling fast, driven by our open-source legacy, global collaborative culture, and passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust are paramount.

We understand you may not meet every requirement, and that's okay. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

This is a remote opportunity, and we are interested in applicants based in Spain, Ireland, Germany, the UK, or Sweden at this time.

The Opportunity

Grafana Observability builds end-to-end observability across application, infrastructure, database, browser, and mobile. Our Mobile Observability initiative provides mobile developers with first-class instrumentation SDKs that capture traces, metrics, logs, crashes, and user sessions. Our solutions are tightly integrated with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud, focusing on high-performance, low-overhead SDKs that connect mobile signals to backend and infrastructure telemetry for true full-stack visibility.

We value open standards, great developer experience, and the hard engineering work required to ship reliable software at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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, and iterate quickly.
• Ensure quality through 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.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 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 with iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and, optionally, 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.

Bonus Points For

• Contributions to OpenTelemetry, crash reporting libraries, or other observability OSS.
• Experience with cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter) or building native bindings/bridges.
• Experience with mobile security, privacy, or platform integration challenges.
• Prior work on crash aggregation, session replay, or sampling for mobile telemetry.

Compensation & Rewards

In Germany, the compensation range for this role is €97,000 - €121,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

• 100% Remote, Global Culture – We bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person onboarding – We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect.