Staff Mobile Engineer – Session Replay

Grafana Labs

. Serve as technical lead for mobile capture and replay across the device, ingest path, and player .

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeRemote • Canada, United StatesLead💰 CA$192,891 - CA$231,469 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in mobile engineering with a focus on Android and iOS development, including performance optimization and user-centered design. Capable of leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and ensuring privacy and security in mobile applications.

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Mobile Engineering ExperienceAndroid Development (Kotlin/Java)IOS Development (Swift/Objective-C)Mobile SDK DevelopmentPerformance Optimization

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Hard Skills

Mobile SDK DevelopmentAndroid Development (Kotlin/Java)IOS Development (Swift/Objective-C)Performance OptimizationAPI DesignVideo EncodingScreen CaptureMemory ManagementBattery EfficiencyNetwork Efficiency

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationUser-Centered ApproachMentoringAutonomous WorkCustomer Engagement

Tools & Technologies

OpenTelemetryFlutterReact NativeCI ToolsAI Tools

Industry Keywords

Mobile CaptureReplay LibraryPrivacy and SecuritySensitive Data HandlingDeveloper Experience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidFlutteriOSJavaKotlinObjective-CReactReact NativeSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as technical lead for mobile capture and replay across the device, ingest path, and player
Own the on-device replay library end to end, starting with Android and extending to iOS
Design masking and consent controls so sensitive data never leaves the device
Measure and minimize startup, UI responsiveness, battery, memory, network, and disk overhead on real devices
Provide customer controls to trade replay fidelity against cost
Build integration adapters connecting replay to active RUM sessions, sampling decisions, and screen or navigation changes
Collaborate with Frontend and Mobile Observability teams on capture, upload, storage, session inactivity, timeline player, and mobile sessions/replay experiences
Define automated testing, CI, device and OS coverage, and backwards-compatible SDK upgrade paths
Engage directly with customers, gather feedback, and support instrumentation and adoption
Mentor engineers and develop technical leadership
Build Mobile Session Replay for Android, then iOS, Flutter, React Native, and OpenTelemetry mobile SDKs

Requirements

What you’ll need

Candidates must be based in Canada or the United States, within the Eastern or Central time zones
Clear written and spoken English
Deep native mobile engineering experience on Android (Kotlin/Java) or iOS (Swift/Objective-C)
Experience building or maintaining mobile SDKs or platform libraries used by external developers
Experience with developer experience, API design, and safe upgrade paths
Experience with performance-sensitive code, including startup time, memory, battery, network efficiency, and background execution limits
Experience with mobile media and rendering pipelines, including screen capture, frames or bitmaps, and video encoding or handling
Ability to own 0-to-1 products in ambiguous problem spaces and work autonomously
User-centered approach and ability to understand customer context and goals
Knowledge of privacy and security on user devices, including sensitive data handling
Experience using AI tools in engineering workflows
Willingness to learn and contribute across Android and iOS platforms over time

Benefits

Comp & perks

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for every team member
Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
100% remote work
Career growth pathways
In-person onboarding
30 days of annual leave per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
Autonomy and support to ship great work
Empowered, high-trust teams
Approachable, involved leadership