Job Description
About the Role
We are looking for aSenior Android SDK Engineerto join our Mobile Observability team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining ourAndroid SDK,a production-grade instrumentation library embedded in customer applications running on millions of devices.
This is ahands-on, SDK-first roledeeply 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.
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.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain anAndroid observability SDKused by external developers in production at scale
- Work oncrash capture (JVM and NDK), ANR detection, performance tracing, and session orchestration
- Develop and maintainnative (C/C++) componentsincluding signal handling and JNI bridges
- Evolve the SDK’sOpenTelemetry integration,spans, traces, and distributed tracing via W3C Traceparent
- Build reliable mechanisms foroffline storage, batching, retries, and telemetry delivery
- Optimize forminimal SDK overhead: startup time, memory footprint, thread usage, and binary size
- OwnAPI surface design, binary compatibility, and versioningfor a public SDK
- Debug complex issues acrossdevices, OS versions, OEMs, and customer environments
- Contribute toarchitectural decisionsacross a modular SDK codebase
- Establish best practices fortesting, release safety, and code quality
- Partner with cross-platform SDK teams (React Native, Flutter, Unity) to maintaininternal bridge interfacesand ensure native changes do not break downstream consumers
Qualifications
- Strong proficiency inKotlin, with solid working knowledge ofJava
- Deep understanding ofAndroid runtime fundamentals: lifecycle, threading/Looper, memory, startup behavior
- Experience working withnative code (C/C++)on Android (NDK / JNI)
- Track record building or maintainingSDKs, libraries, or developer-facing platforms
- Experience usingGit and modern CI/CD workflows
- Experience optimizing forperformance and reliability
- Comfort debugging issues inproduction mobile environments
- Openness toAI-augmented engineering workflows
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially when discussing technical tradeoffs
Bonus Points
- Experience withAndroid Gradle Plugin internals, custom Lint rules, or bytecode instrumentation
- Open-source contributions
- Experience designing and evolvingpublic APIs
- Experience maintainingbackward compatibility
- Experience optimizingstartup impact, memory footprint, or runtime overhead
- Exposure tocross-platform frameworks(React Native, Flutter, Unity), particularly understanding how native SDK changes ripple through those ecosystems
- Familiarity with modern Android tooling/ecosystem trends
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. Candidates should be comfortable discussing their experience and perspective on AI-assisted development.
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.
