diff --git a/starboard/android/shared/BUILD.gn b/starboard/android/shared/BUILD.gn
index d47a0ef66939..e94316caee7a 100644
--- a/starboard/android/shared/BUILD.gn
+++ b/starboard/android/shared/BUILD.gn
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ static_library("starboard_platform") {
       "asset_manager.cc",
       "asset_manager.h",
       "posix_emu/access.cc",
+      "posix_emu/alarm.cc",
       "posix_emu/errno.cc",
       "posix_emu/file.cc",
       "posix_emu/net_if.cc",
diff --git a/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/alarm.cc b/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/alarm.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..880db4ddd045
--- /dev/null
+++ b/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/alarm.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+// Copyright 2026 The Cobalt Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "starboard/common/log.h"
+
+namespace {
+
+// A one-shot POSIX timer used to implement a thread-directed alarm()
+struct ThreadAlarmTimer {
+  timer_t timer = nullptr;
+
+  ~ThreadAlarmTimer() {
+    if (timer) {
+      timer_delete(timer);
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+thread_local ThreadAlarmTimer g_thread_alarm_timer;
+
+}  // namespace
+
+extern "C" {
+
+unsigned int __real_alarm(unsigned int seconds);
+
+// alarm() on Android/ART calls setitimer set with ITIMER_REAL, which raises a
+// process-directed SIGALRM. signal() may deliver process-directed signals to
+// any of the process threads that has SIGALRM unblocked, and the kernel decides
+// which is going to be the receiving thread. So on Android, waiting for SIGALRM
+// isn't reliable and to circunvent this issue a per-thread POSIX timer is set
+// with SIGEV_THREAD_ID, which sets up the thread that started the timer as the
+// receiver, not letting the signal go to unblocked receivers like the ART
+// signal catcher.
+
+unsigned int __wrap_alarm(unsigned int seconds) {
+  ThreadAlarmTimer& thread_timer = g_thread_alarm_timer;
+  if (thread_timer.timer == nullptr) {
+    if (seconds == 0) {
+      // No timer to create yet; just cancel any existing process-level alarm.
+      return __real_alarm(0);
+    }
+    struct sigevent sev = {};
+    sev.sigev_notify = SIGEV_THREAD_ID;
+    sev.sigev_signo = SIGALRM;
+    sev.sigev_notify_thread_id = gettid();
+    if (timer_create(CLOCK_REALTIME, &sev, &thread_timer.timer) != 0) {
+      SB_LOG(WARNING) << "alarm(): timer_create failed (" << strerror(errno)
+                      << "), falling back to the process-level alarm";
+      return __real_alarm(seconds);
+    }
+  }
+
+  struct itimerspec new_value = {};
+  new_value.it_value.tv_sec = seconds;
+  struct itimerspec old_value = {};
+  if (timer_settime(thread_timer.timer, 0, &new_value, &old_value) != 0) {
+    SB_LOG(WARNING) << "alarm(): timer_settime failed (" << strerror(errno)
+                    << "), falling back to the process-level alarm";
+    return __real_alarm(seconds);
+  }
+
+  // matches musl's implementation return logic, but using
+  // nsec instead of usec
+  return old_value.it_value.tv_sec + !!old_value.it_value.tv_nsec;
+}
+
+}  // extern "C"
diff --git a/starboard/aosp/shared/platform_configuration/BUILD.gn b/starboard/aosp/shared/platform_configuration/BUILD.gn
index 3d1c29dc06c6..671ccb476173 100644
--- a/starboard/aosp/shared/platform_configuration/BUILD.gn
+++ b/starboard/aosp/shared/platform_configuration/BUILD.gn
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ config("platform_configuration") {
   if (current_toolchain == starboard_toolchain) {
     ldflags = [
       "-Wl,--wrap=access",
+      "-Wl,--wrap=alarm",
       "-Wl,--wrap=close",
       "-Wl,--wrap=fstatat",
       "-Wl,--wrap=if_indextoname",