Android SDK Engineer, Embrace

• This role is ideal for someone who thrives close to the platform, has strong judgment around API design, and enjoys solving complex debugging and performance challenges in real-world mobile environments
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, with solid working knowledge of Java
• Deep understanding of Android runtime fundamentals: lifecycle, threading/Looper, memory, startup behavior
• Experience working with native code (C/C++) on Android (NDK / JNI)
• Track record building or maintaining SDKs, libraries, or developer-facing platforms
• Experience using Git and modern CI/CD workflows
• Experience optimizing for performance and reliability
• Comfort debugging issues in production mobile environments
• Openness to AI-augmented engineering workflows
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially when discussing technical tradeoffs

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Android SDK Engineer to join our Mobile Observability team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our Android SDK, a production-grade instrumentation library embedded in customer applications running on millions of devices
• This is a hands-on, SDK-first role deeply rooted in the Android platform. You’ll work across Kotlin, Java, and selected native components to build performance monitoring, telemetry capture, crash detection and ANR monitoring - all with minimal overhead
• You'll contribute to critical low-level systems such as signal handling, stack unwinding, and lifecycle orchestration, while helping evolve a stable, developer-friendly API surface. You’ll collaborate across platform teams and contribute to evolving observability standards such as OpenTelemetry
• Design, build, and maintain an Android observability SDK used by external developers in production at scale
• Work on crash capture (JVM and NDK), ANR detection, performance tracing, and session orchestration
• Develop and maintain native (C/C++) components including signal handling and JNI bridges
• Evolve the SDK’s OpenTelemetry integration, spans, traces, and distributed tracing via W3C Traceparent
• Build reliable mechanisms for offline storage, batching, retries, and telemetry delivery
• Optimize for minimal SDK overhead: startup time, memory footprint, thread usage, and binary size
• Own API surface design, binary compatibility, and versioning for a public SDK
• Debug complex issues across devices, OS versions, OEMs, and customer environments
• Contribute to architectural decisions across a modular SDK codebase
• Establish best practices for testing, release safety, and code quality
• Partner with cross-platform SDK teams (React Native, Flutter, Unity) to maintain internal bridge interfaces and ensure native changes do not break downstream consumers
• This role emphasizes SDK / framework / platform engineering, not application UI development

• Our interview process includes live, synchronous conversations. Final stages may include an in-person meeting with a team member (travel may be required)