Staff Mobile Engineer: Instrumentation SDK (iOS/Android) - Observability | US | Remote at Grafana Labs

This role is ideal for a high-level mobile engineer who thrives on the "invisible" side of development—building the SDKs and libraries that other developers rely on. While the listing mentions "Mid-level," the "Staff" title and compensation suggest they are looking for someone with significant experience in mobile architecture. You should be equally comfortable in Swift/Objective-C and Kotlin/Java, with a deep understanding of mobile internals like memory management, startup performance, and network efficiency. The position offers a competitive salary range of $175k–$210k plus RSUs, emphasizing a rare "remote-first" culture that truly values autonomy. You’ll be working at the intersection of open-source and enterprise software, contributing to the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. A standout perk is the "pragmatic AI" approach, where the company provides a dedicated budget and access to frontier models (like GPT-4 and Claude Opus) to accelerate your workflow. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have a track record of building mobile SDKs or platform-level libraries used by external teams. * Are obsessed with performance-sensitive code and minimizing the overhead of third-party libraries. * Want to contribute directly to OpenTelemetry and help define the future of mobile observability. * Enjoy navigating "poorly defined scopes" and shifting from high-level design to shipping modular code.