diff --git a/.github/workflows/system-tests-backend.yml b/.github/workflows/system-tests-backend.yml
index 007fe575d14..ea6a53a8750 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/system-tests-backend.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/system-tests-backend.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ on:
     branches:
       - main
   pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '*android*/**'
+      - 'sentry-compose/**'
+      - 'sentry-samples/sentry-samples-android/**'
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}