5 hours ago
Remote, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve high-performance, stable iOS instrumentation SDKs using Swift and Objective-C.
- Design and ship features including session tracking, crash reporting, sampling strategies, automatic context propagation, and OpenTelemetry integrations.
- Own projects end to end and break ambiguous problems into incremental deliverables.
- Maintain software quality through automated tests, continuous integration, documentation, and backward-compatible upgrade paths.
- Collaborate with backend, frontend, product, and solutions engineering teams on end-to-end observability workflows.
- Review pull requests, discuss design proposals, and support external open-source contributors.
- Mentor teammates, participate in technical design discussions, and help shape the mobile observability roadmap.
Requirements
- Strong iOS and Swift/Objective-C engineering experience; Android Kotlin/Java experience is optional.
- Demonstrated experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs, platform libraries, or developer-facing platform code used by external developers.
- Experience with performance-sensitive code, including startup time, memory, and network efficiency.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry instrumentation, SDKs, collectors, or similar telemetry libraries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work autonomously in a globally distributed team.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, prioritize progress, collaborate effectively, mentor others, write documentation, and contribute to roadmap development.
- Preferred experience includes contributions to OpenTelemetry or observability open source, crash reporting libraries, React Native, Flutter, native bindings or bridges, mobile security or privacy, platform integrations, crash aggregation, session replay, or mobile telemetry sampling.
Benefits
- 100% remote work for applicants based in Spain, Ireland, Germany, the UK, or Sweden.
- In-person onboarding is provided.
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
- Restricted Stock Units are included with all roles.
- Defined career growth opportunities, transparent communication, and an open-source, globally distributed culture.
About Grafana
Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools and a managed SaaS, Grafana Cloud, used by engineering and SRE teams to monitor, visualize, and analyze telemetry. Its products include Grafana dashboards plus Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), and Mimir (metrics), offered as cloud subscriptions and enterprise software. Privately held and headquartered in New York, it serves customers such as Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce.