diff --git a/Sources/Segment/Utilities/Telemetry.swift b/Sources/Segment/Utilities/Telemetry.swift
index 36ac690..6a07f8f 100644
--- a/Sources/Segment/Utilities/Telemetry.swift
+++ b/Sources/Segment/Utilities/Telemetry.swift
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
 
     internal var session: any HTTPSession
     internal var host: String = HTTPClient.getDefaultAPIHost()
-    var sampleRate: Double = 1.0 // inital sample rate should be 1.0, will be downsampled on start
+    @Atomic var sampleRate: Double = 1.0 // inital sample rate should be 1.0, will be downsampled on start
     private var flushTimer: Int = 30
     internal var maxQueueSize: Int = 20
     var errorLogSizeMax: Int = 4000
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
 
     internal var queue = [RemoteMetric]()
     private var queueBytes = 0
-    internal var started = false
-    private var rateLimitEndTime: TimeInterval = 0
-    internal var flushFirstError = true
+    @Atomic internal var started = false
+    @Atomic private var rateLimitEndTime: TimeInterval = 0
+    @Atomic internal var flushFirstError = true
     private var telemetryQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "telemetryQueue")
     private var updateQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "updateQueue")
     private var telemetryTimer: QueueTimer?
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
     /// Starts the Telemetry send loop. Requires both `enable` to be set and a configuration to be retrieved from Segment.
     func start() {
         guard enable, !started, sampleRate > 0.0 && sampleRate <= 1.0 else { return }
-        started = true
+        _started.set(true)
 
         // Queue contents were sampled at the default 100%
         // the values on flush will be adjusted in the send function
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
             resetQueue()
         }
 
-        self.telemetryTimer = QueueTimer(interval: .seconds(self.flushTimer), queue: .main) { [weak self] in
+        self.telemetryTimer = QueueTimer(interval: .seconds(self.flushTimer), queue: updateQueue) { [weak self] in
             if (!(self?.enable ?? false)) {
-                self?.started = false
+                self?._started.set(false)
                 self?.telemetryTimer?.suspend()
             }
             self?.flush()
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
     func reset() {
         telemetryTimer?.suspend()
         resetQueue()
-        started = false
-        rateLimitEndTime = 0
+        _started.set(false)
+        _rateLimitEndTime.set(0)
     }
 
     /// Increments a metric with the provided tags.
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
         addRemoteMetric(metric: metric, tags: filteredTags, log: logData)
 
         if (flushFirstError) {
-            flushFirstError = false
+            _flushFirstError.set(false)
             flush()
         }
     }
@@ -175,14 +175,14 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
             if rateLimitEndTime > Date().timeIntervalSince1970 {
                 return
             }
-            rateLimitEndTime = 0
+            _rateLimitEndTime.set(0)
 
             do {
                 try send()
                 queueBytes = 0
             } catch {
                 errorHandler?(error)
-                sampleRate = 0.0
+                _sampleRate.set(0.0)
             }
         }
     }
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
 
             if let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse, httpResponse.statusCode == 429 {
                 if let retryAfter = httpResponse.allHeaderFields["Retry-After"] as? String, let retryAfterSeconds = TimeInterval(retryAfter) {
-                    self.rateLimitEndTime = retryAfterSeconds + Date().timeIntervalSince1970
+                    self._rateLimitEndTime.set(retryAfterSeconds + Date().timeIntervalSince1970)
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ public class Telemetry: Subscriber {
 
     private func systemUpdate(system: System) {
         if let settings = system.settings, let sampleRate = settings.metrics?["sampleRate"]?.doubleValue {
-            self.sampleRate = sampleRate
+            self._sampleRate.set(sampleRate)
             start()
         }
     }