Senior Software Engineer (Android/AOSP)

Location: Not specified; compensation may vary according to hirify.global's hybrid working policy and geographic location.

Salary: $193,300–$289,900 USD base pay per year, with possible bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global develops PlayStation hardware, network services, and entertainment experiences, including the PlayStation Portal platform.

What you will do

• Define and implement logging architecture for AOSP-based systems, including collection, storage, retention, archival, and structured logging standards.
• Build crash, ANR, native crash, kernel panic, and diagnostic analysis infrastructure using artifacts such as tombstones, DropBox entries, and bug reports.
• Investigate customer-facing production incidents, identify recurring failure patterns, and lead incident reviews, postmortems, and corrective actions.
• Design log-based monitoring, anomaly detection, automated alerting, escalation frameworks, dashboards, and reliability metrics.
• Improve platform observability, debuggability, diagnosability, and mean time to detect and resolve issues.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality engineering, customer support, security, and product teams on platform quality and reliability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in native Android development with strong Java or Kotlin and Android Studio expertise.
• Experience developing Android/AOSP system software and designing logging, diagnostics, or observability systems.
• Strong experience with crash analysis, production debugging, root cause investigation, and large-scale system incidents.
• Experience debugging Linux kernel or other low-level system software issues.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++, Java, and/or Kotlin, plus knowledge of software architecture, operating systems, and system software fundamentals.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Android Framework components, kernel logging, tracing, Perfetto, Systrace, ftrace, or similar tools.
• Experience operating crash analytics, telemetry, observability, monitoring, or cloud-native logging platforms.
• Security incident response, forensic investigations, SRE, consumer electronics, or developer tools experience.
• Experience with React, React Native, Angular, or similar modern JavaScript frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Work focused on quality, reliability, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and exceptional user experiences.
• Collaboration across engineering, quality, support, security, and product functions.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, matching 401(k), paid time off, and a wellness program.
• Employee discounts on Sony products and possible eligibility for a bonus package.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage and may include criminal background checks for some roles.