Senior SDK Engineer

About Us:

At Sauce Labs, we empower the world's top enterprises - like Walmart, Bank of America, and Indeed - to deliver quality web and mobile applications at speed. Our industry-leading platform ensures continuous quality across the SDLC, using AI-powered analytics to identify key quality signals from development through production. With our unified solution, teams can release and innovate with confidence, knowing their apps will always look, function, and perform exactly as they should. Backed by TPG and Riverwood Capital, we are shaping the future of digital confidence - join us!

The Role:

Sauce Labs is looking for technical leadership in a strategic component connecting customer mobile and gaming applications to our Error Reporting service. This is a challenge beyond just writing another app and focusing on UX. Can you approach Android as a Linux distro, and develop both native and managed code to build bridges between OS fundamentals and the application layer? Here you will lean into unique technical challenges and gain a career-bumping breadth of experience across multiple mobile and gaming platforms. And as a technical leader you will work with business and engineering leadership across Sauce Labs and directly with engineers from other leading tech companies.

Work type - hybrid.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with product and engineering leadership to design and develop elegant solutions for application observability.
• Solve leading-edge problems bridging the layers of an application, from managed to native to OS, in multiple platforms - mobile, gaming, managed languages, web and more.
• Deliver a mix of open-source and proprietary software.
• Advise customer-facing organizations on the mobile domain.

Required Skills:

• Approximately 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Required: C++ expertise, and proven experience in mobile/gaming app development, especially with languages like Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C.
• Experience designing SDKs and tools that are intuitive for external developers to integrate, with clear APIs and documentation.
• Threading and concurrency:  Experience addressing race conditions, deadlocks, and performance bottlenecks in mobile and gaming SDKs.
• Cross-language integration:  Experience with JNI/NDK (Java - C/C++) and bridging layers (Unity/Unreal - native)
• A solid understanding of the crash reporting toolchain, and experience with native crash reporting tools like Crashpad and PLCrashReporter. Being comfortable with analyzing a minidump.
• Performance & footprint awareness:  Ability to design SDKs that are lightweight, efficient, and minimally intrusive to customer applications.
• Security best practices:  Familiarity with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and strategies for securely handling crash and error data.
• Strong knowledge of cross-platform build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and package distribution (e.g., Gradle, CocoaPods, npm, Unity Package Manager).

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Security responsibilities at Sauce

At Sauce, we will commit to supporting the health and safety of employees and properties, partnering with internal stakeholders to learn and act on ever-evolving security protocols and procedures. You’ll be expected to fully comply with all policies and procedures related to security at the department and org wide level and exercise a ‘security first’ approach to how we design, build & run our products and services.