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Replay Operator jobs are open from entry-level to senior across broadcast television, live sports production, and esports, with specializations in live event replay, instant replay systems, and multi-camera clip management. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. 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, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
This is a full-time remote opportunity. We are considering candidates based in the US and Canada only, within the Eastern or Central time zones.
The Opportunity:
We are building Mobile Session Replay: a way for teams to see what users actually experienced in their iOS, Android, Flutter and React Native apps, inside Grafana Cloud.
Session Replay connects frontend signals to session-level evidence, so engineers can investigate production issues faster and with more confidence. Web replay is already available publicly. Mobile replay extends the same story to native apps as part of our Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) strategy.
We are starting with Android. A working prototype already exists, and you will help turn it into a product customers can trust. The plan is to push ahead from there: iOS next, then our Flutter, React Native and OpenTelemetry mobile SDKs, so customers get a consistent replay experience across platforms.
As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. We are looking for Staff Mobile Engineers who are passionate about working with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team!
What you'll be doing
As a Staff Mobile Engineer you will be the technical lead for mobile capture and replay, working across the device, the ingest path and the player. Specifically, you will:
- Own the on-device replay library end to end, starting with Android and extending to iOS.
- Make privacy a default, designing masking and consent controls so sensitive data never leaves the device.
- Keep the overhead low and measure it on real devices, protecting startup time, UI responsiveness, battery, memory, network use and disk, and profiling the impact of capture and masking while the app is actively being used. Give customers controls to trade fidelity against cost.
- Build the integration layer so customers do not copy demo glue code: adapters that tie replay to the active RUM session, sampling decisions and screen or navigation changes.
- Work across the stack with Frontend and Mobile Observability teams on the capture, upload and storage pipeline, session inactivity handling, the timeline player and the mobile sessions and replay experience in Frontend Observability. Evaluate the format and API tradeoffs rather than assuming the current prototype approach is final.
- Define quality and compatibility: automated tests, CI, device and OS coverage, and backwards-compatible upgrade paths for an SDK that customers cannot easily update.
- Engage directly with customers: join calls, gather structured feedback, and help teams instrument and adopt Mobile Session Replay
- Mentor engineers and help grow technical leadership in the team
We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always with strong code review and quality standards. You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Technologies you'll work with
- Kotlin (primary, Android-first) and Swift (iOS)
- Android media and graphics APIs (MediaCodec / H.264 encoding, view and window capture, Jetpack Compose and View-based UIs)
- Faro (Flutter and React Native SDKs) and OpenTelemetry Android and iOS SDKs
- Go (collector and ingest services) and TypeScript / React (player and Frontend Observability UI), as you partner across the stack
- OLAP Database / Object storage (S3)
- Kafka/Warpstream
- Grafana ecosystem (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, etc.)
What makes you a great fit
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first, globally distributed company. Communication is key, and you write and speak clearly in English
- You are collaborative, friendly, kind and respectful. We operate by consensus: you can contribute, disagree constructively, and commit to the team's decision
- You have deep native mobile engineering experience on Android (Kotlin/Java) or iOS (Swift/Obj-C). We are building Android first, so Android depth is a priority for the first hire. We are hiring across both platforms, and we do not expect you to be an expert in both, but you are willing to learn and contribute across platforms over time.
- You have built or maintained mobile SDKs or platform libraries used by external developers, and you care about developer experience, API design and safe upgrade paths
- You have worked on performance-sensitive code (startup time, memory, battery, network efficiency, background execution limits) and make pragmatic tradeoffs
- You are comfortable with media and rendering pipelines on mobile: capturing screen content, working with frames or bitmaps, and encoding or handling video
- You are comfortable owning a product from 0 to 1 in ambiguous problem spaces. You can break large problems into increments and work autonomously
- You take a user-centered approach, and you build understanding of customers' context and goals so you build the right thing
- You are thoughtful about privacy and security on user devices, including handling of sensitive data
- You use AI tools as a natural part of your engineering workflow, for exploration, code review or reasoning through design tradeoffs, and you are thoughtful about where they help and where they don't
Bonus points for
- Prior work on mobile session replay, screen recording, or sampling for mobile telemetry
- Experience with video encoding (H.264, MediaCodec, AVFoundation) or on-device masking and redaction
- Familiarity with rrweb or web session replay concepts
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, crash reporting libraries or other observability open source
- Experience with cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter) or building native bindings and bridges
- Experience with observability or debugging tools (Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc.)
- Familiarity with mobile privacy, consent and platform policy requirements
- Experience with Go or TypeScript, since the work crosses into our ingest and player
In US, the OTE (On-Target Earnings)/Base compensation range for this role is $189,374 - $227,249 USD. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
- Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. 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, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
This is a full-time remote opportunity. We are considering candidates based in the US and Canada only, within the Eastern or Central time zones.
The Opportunity:
We are building Mobile Session Replay: a way for teams to see what users actually experienced in their iOS, Android, Flutter and React Native apps, inside Grafana Cloud.
Session Replay connects frontend signals to session-level evidence, so engineers can investigate production issues faster and with more confidence. Web replay is already available publicly. Mobile replay extends the same story to native apps as part of our Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) strategy.
We are starting with Android. A working prototype already exists, and you will help turn it into a product customers can trust. The plan is to push ahead from there: iOS next, then our Flutter, React Native and OpenTelemetry mobile SDKs, so customers get a consistent replay experience across platforms.
As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. We are looking for Staff Mobile Engineers who are passionate about working with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team!
What you'll be doing
As a Staff Mobile Engineer you will be the technical lead for mobile capture and replay, working across the device, the ingest path and the player. Specifically, you will:
- Own the on-device replay library end to end, starting with Android and extending to iOS.
- Make privacy a default, designing masking and consent controls so sensitive data never leaves the device.
- Keep the overhead low and measure it on real devices, protecting startup time, UI responsiveness, battery, memory, network use and disk, and profiling the impact of capture and masking while the app is actively being used. Give customers controls to trade fidelity against cost.
- Build the integration layer so customers do not copy demo glue code: adapters that tie replay to the active RUM session, sampling decisions and screen or navigation changes.
- Work across the stack with Frontend and Mobile Observability teams on the capture, upload and storage pipeline, session inactivity handling, the timeline player and the mobile sessions and replay experience in Frontend Observability. Evaluate the format and API tradeoffs rather than assuming the current prototype approach is final.
- Define quality and compatibility: automated tests, CI, device and OS coverage, and backwards-compatible upgrade paths for an SDK that customers cannot easily update.
- Engage directly with customers: join calls, gather structured feedback, and help teams instrument and adopt Mobile Session Replay
- Mentor engineers and help grow technical leadership in the team
We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always with strong code review and quality standards. You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Technologies you'll work with
- Kotlin (primary, Android-first) and Swift (iOS)
- Android media and graphics APIs (MediaCodec / H.264 encoding, view and window capture, Jetpack Compose and View-based UIs)
- Faro (Flutter and React Native SDKs) and OpenTelemetry Android and iOS SDKs
- Go (collector and ingest services) and TypeScript / React (player and Frontend Observability UI), as you partner across the stack
- OLAP Database / Object storage (S3)
- Kafka/Warpstream
- Grafana ecosystem (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, etc.)
What makes you a great fit
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first, globally distributed company. Communication is key, and you write and speak clearly in English
- You are collaborative, friendly, kind and respectful. We operate by consensus: you can contribute, disagree constructively, and commit to the team's decision
- You have deep native mobile engineering experience on Android (Kotlin/Java) or iOS (Swift/Obj-C). We are building Android first, so Android depth is a priority for the first hire. We are hiring across both platforms, and we do not expect you to be an expert in both, but you are willing to learn and contribute across platforms over time.
- You have built or maintained mobile SDKs or platform libraries used by external developers, and you care about developer experience, API design and safe upgrade paths
- You have worked on performance-sensitive code (startup time, memory, battery, network efficiency, background execution limits) and make pragmatic tradeoffs
- You are comfortable with media and rendering pipelines on mobile: capturing screen content, working with frames or bitmaps, and encoding or handling video
- You are comfortable owning a product from 0 to 1 in ambiguous problem spaces. You can break large problems into increments and work autonomously
- You take a user-centered approach, and you build understanding of customers' context and goals so you build the right thing
- You are thoughtful about privacy and security on user devices, including handling of sensitive data
- You use AI tools as a natural part of your engineering workflow, for exploration, code review or reasoning through design tradeoffs, and you are thoughtful about where they help and where they don't
Bonus points for
- Prior work on mobile session replay, screen recording, or sampling for mobile telemetry
- Experience with video encoding (H.264, MediaCodec, AVFoundation) or on-device masking and redaction
- Familiarity with rrweb or web session replay concepts
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, crash reporting libraries or other observability open source
- Experience with cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter) or building native bindings and bridges
- Experience with observability or debugging tools (Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc.)
- Familiarity with mobile privacy, consent and platform policy requirements
- Experience with Go or TypeScript, since the work crosses into our ingest and player
In US, the OTE (On-Target Earnings)/Base compensation range for this role is $189,374 - $227,249 USD. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
- Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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Who's Hiring
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in replay operator jobs.
- Hands-on experience operating EVS, Grass Valley, or comparable instant replay systems
- Ability to work live broadcasts under real-time pressure with zero margin for error
- Proficiency in multi-camera clip tagging, logging, and playback management
- Experience with live sports, news, or entertainment broadcast productions
- Strong communication skills for coordinating with directors and producers on-air
- Associate or bachelor's degree in broadcast technology, communications, or a related field
Tips for Your Replay Operator Job Search
Tailor your resume to replay systems
List the specific replay platforms you've operated, such as EVS, Grass Valley, or similar production systems, by name. Hiring managers scan for system familiarity fast, and a generic 'video production' line won't get you past the first read.
Highlight live event experience separately
Live sports and broadcast crews treat live-event replay experience differently from post-production credits. Create a dedicated section for live events, naming the type of broadcast, the replay system used, and the production scale so employers can assess your pace.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists replay operator openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Search by production type not just title
Job postings for this role appear under 'replay operator', 'instant replay technician', 'EVS operator', and 'playback operator'. Search all four variations to avoid missing active openings that match your exact background.
Prepare a clip reel showing replay sequences
Many interview panels for replay operator roles ask to see your work. A short reel showing tagged, organized replay sequences from real broadcasts demonstrates your speed and clip selection instincts better than a resume line ever could.
Ask technical questions during the interview
Interviewers notice when candidates ask about the specific replay system in use, the number of channels, and the production workflow. That curiosity signals genuine experience and helps you assess whether the setup matches your skill level.
Replay Operator Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most replay operators?
The most active employers for replay operators right now are DVSport, NVIDIA, and deCircle, and the most openings are in Georgia, New York, and Maryland, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Live sports networks and broadcast production companies tend to post the highest volume of openings during peak sports seasons.
How many replay operator jobs are remote?
About 57% of replay operator openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most broadcast production environments. The sub-areas most likely to offer remote or hybrid arrangements are post-production replay editing and replay system quality assurance roles, which require less real-time on-site operation.
How do you become a replay operator?
Start by gaining hands-on experience with video production in a broadcast, esports, or live event environment, even in a junior or assist role. Learn industry-standard replay platforms through formal training programs or on-the-job exposure. Build a reel of live-event work, then apply to production assistant or junior operator roles to get floor experience before moving into dedicated replay positions.
How do you get hired as a replay operator with little experience?
Focus on entry-level production roles at local news stations, college sports departments, or esports organizations where replay responsibilities are part of a broader production role. Volunteering at live events gives you documented system time to put on a resume. Knowing one replay platform well and being able to demonstrate it in a practical test is more persuasive than a long list of tools you've only seen once.
What does the replay operator interview process look like?
Most interviews include an initial screening call focused on your broadcast background and system experience, followed by a technical interview or practical assessment where you may be asked to demonstrate clip tagging, playback sequencing, or fault recovery on a replay system. Final-round interviews often involve a conversation with a production director or technical supervisor who evaluates your live-event judgment and communication under pressure.
Where can I find and apply to replay operator jobs?
You can find and apply to replay operator jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your system experience and production background, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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