Senior iOS Instrumentation SDK Engineer at Grafana Labs

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Build Swift and Objective-C observability SDKs for iOS with OpenTelemetry, crash reporting and session tracking. The employer lists Spain (Remote).

Grafana Labs

Location: Remote
Advertised region: Spain (Remote)
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Java, React, Flutter

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Role overview

Grafana’s Mobile Observability team builds lightweight SDKs that connect mobile traces, metrics, logs, crashes and user sessions to backend telemetry. This role owns iOS instrumentation designed for high performance and a practical developer experience. The postings list specific European remote hiring countries.

Responsibilities

Develop iOS instrumentation libraries in Swift and Objective-C with attention to stability, startup time and resource use.
Ship session tracking, crash reporting, sampling, automatic context propagation and OpenTelemetry integrations.
Own projects from design through incremental release, feedback and revision.
Maintain tests, continuous integration, documentation and backward-compatible SDK upgrades.
Work with backend, frontend and product teams, review open-source contributions and mentor engineers.

Qualifications

Strong iOS engineering experience with Swift or Objective-C; Android experience is optional.
Experience building developer-facing mobile SDKs, libraries or platform code used outside the team.
Ability to optimise performance-sensitive mobile code, including memory and network use.
Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or comparable telemetry libraries and clear communication in a remote team.
Open-source observability work, React Native or Flutter bindings, mobile privacy and security, crash aggregation or session replay are useful extras.

Technology in this role

Java: • Strong mobile engineering experience: with iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and, optionally, Android .
React: Open-source observability work, React Native or Flutter bindings, mobile privacy and security, crash aggregation or session replay are useful .
Flutter: Open-source observability work, React Native or Flutter bindings, mobile privacy and security, crash aggregation or session replay are useful .
React Native: Open-source observability work, React Native or Flutter bindings, mobile privacy and security, crash aggregation or session replay are useful .
Kotlin: • Strong mobile engineering experience: with iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and, optionally, Android .
Swift: Develop iOS instrumentation libraries in Swift and Objective-C with attention to stability, startup time and resource .
Objective-C: Develop iOS instrumentation libraries in Swift and Objective-C with attention to stability, startup time and resource .
C: Develop iOS instrumentation libraries in Swift and Objective-C with attention to stability, startup time and resource .
CAN: Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, .
Salesforce: Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana .
Android: Android experience is .
iOS: This role owns iOS instrumentation designed for high performance and a practical developer .
Grafana: Grafana’s Mobile Observability team builds lightweight SDKs that connect mobile traces, metrics, logs, crashes and user sessions to backend .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Senior Mobile Engineer - Instrumentation SDK (iOS) | Spain | Remote position at Grafana Labs is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “Grafana’s Mobile Observability team builds lightweight SDKs that connect mobile traces, metrics, logs, crashes and user sessions to backend telemetry. This role owns iOS instrumentation designed for high performance and…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the mobile application area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may have changed since this copy was checked. Where this page says a fact is not specified, treat it as an open question rather than an implied promise.

What the responsibilities signal. The posting specifically names “Develop iOS instrumentation libraries in Swift and Objective-C with attention to stability, startup time and resource use.”; “Ship session tracking, crash reporting, sampling, automatic context propagation and OpenTelemetry integrations.”; “Own projects from design through incremental release, feedback and revision.”. For each duty, identify a project where you performed comparable work and be ready to describe the context, your own contribution, constraints, decisions, and measurable result. Explain how you moved from the initial need to implementation, review, release or operational follow-through, where those stages apply. If the work involved other teams or users, distinguish your decisions from the group’s contribution. Avoid presenting a technology keyword as proof by itself: connect it to the problem you solved, the scale or complexity involved, and what changed after your work. The source may contain additional duties; review it directly before preparing your application.

How to read the requirements. The listed qualifications include “Strong iOS engineering experience with Swift or Objective-C; Android experience is optional.”; “Experience building developer-facing mobile SDKs, libraries or platform code used outside the team.”; “Ability to optimise performance-sensitive mobile code, including memory and network use.”. Mark each requirement as demonstrated, adjacent experience or a genuine gap, then use a concise.

Benefits

The employer lists remote work, restricted stock units and in-person onboarding. Country-specific compensation and benefits are given on the individual posting.

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs develops Grafana Cloud and open-source observability software that helps teams examine metrics, logs and traces. The employer describes itself as a fully remote company.

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Source checked: 2026-10-13

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