Senior iOS SDK Engineer
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Role Summary
Join GigFinder.ai as a Senior iOS SDK Engineer, focusing on developing high-performance instrumentation libraries for Apple platforms.
About the Organisation
We are looking for aSenior iOS SDK Engineerto join our Mobile Observability team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining ouropen-source Swift SDKacross Apple platforms (iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS).
This is ahands-on, SDK-first rolefocused on building high-performance instrumentation libraries embedded in customer applications. It is ideal for someone who enjoys working close to the platform, solving difficult edge cases, and designing APIs that other developers rely on.
Youll work on performance monitoring, telemetry capture, hang detection and crash reporting, all designed for minimal overhead and maximum reliability. Youll collaborate across platform teams and contribute to evolving observability standards such as OpenTelemetry.
What Youll Do
Design, build, and maintain amodular Swift SDKused by developers across Apple platforms
Work oncrash reporting, hang detection, performance monitoring, and telemetry instrumentation
Build reliable mechanisms foroffline storage, batching, retries, and data deliveryunder mobile runtime constraints
Contribute toSDK architecture, API ergonomics, and backward compatibility
Design and evolve APIs with a focus onstability, clarity, and long-term compatibility
Debug complex issues across devices, OS versions, and app environments, includingthreading, memory, and lifecycle challenges
Develop and maintain capture services fornetworking, user interactions, and system events, leveraging frameworks such asMetricKit
Optimizestartup performance, binary size footprint, memory usage, and thread safety
Coordinate withcross-platform SDK teams (React Native, Flutter, Unity)to ensure native SDK changes do not introduce downstream breaking issues
Collaborate onOpenTelemetry alignment and upstream contributions
Partner with Product and Customer Success to incorporatedeveloper feedback
Minimum Requirements
Strong proficiency inSwift, including async/await, structured concurrency, and protocol-oriented design
Experience building or maintainingSDKs, frameworks, or developer-facing libraries
Deep understanding ofApple platform runtime constraints:memory, threading, lifecycle, startup performance
Experience debugging issues inproduction mobile environments
Familiarity withAPI design, versioning, and SDK evolution
Understanding ofbinary compatibility and ABI stability
Strong advocate fortesting, reliability, and code quality
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience usingGit and modern CI/CD workflows
Openness toAI-augmented engineering workflows
Experience withObjective-C interoperability, runtime behavior, or method swizzling
Experience withSwift macrosorSwift Syntax
Familiarity withOpenTelemetry or observability concepts(traces, spans, logs)
Experience supportingmultiple Apple platformsfrom a shared codebase
Familiarity with system-level frameworks such asMetricKitorMXDiagnostic
Experience working in amulti-SDK ecosystemwhere platform changes affect cross-platform consumers
Contributions toopen-source projects
Experience supportingexternal developers / SDK users
Additional Expectations
Interview & Collaboration
Our interview process includes live, synchronous conversations. Final stages may include anin-person meetingwith a team member (travel may be required).
Engineering Workflow Evolution
We work in an environment whereAI-assisted tools are increasingly part of engineering workflows.
We value pragmatic, thoughtful use of these tools and expect candidates to be comfortable discussing their experience and perspective.
Role Focus
This role emphasizesSDK / framework / platform engineering, not application UI development.
Work Culture & Travel
We are a remote-first company. This role is open to candidates located anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. We believe in regular in-person connection and expect travel for team off-sites and collaboration to be approximately once per quarter.
The cash compensation for this role is in the $130k-170k range. In addition to base comp for this role, we offer equity in the form of options, a variety of benefits, and the opportunity to grow in an exciting and collaborative environment. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process.
Why Join Embrace ?
As the only user-focused observability solution built on OpenTelemetry, Embrace delivers crucial insights across both DevOps, web and mobile teams to illuminate real customer impact not just server impact to deliver the best app experiences. Customers like The New York Times, Marriott, Masterclass, Home Depot, and Cameo love Embrace s observability platform because it makes extremely complicated and voluminous data actionable. Our cultural values highlight how we seek to improve as individuals, team members, and a company each and every day.
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