Remote Backend Engineer - Cloud Native & OpenTelemetry

Centro de e-Learning; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 262,719,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contract in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays access

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote global role collaborates with US/LATAM teams to instrument applications and update manifests for a scalable monitoring stack.

You will validate telemetry, update dashboards, and troubleshoot edge cases while ensuring zero loss of monitoring coverage during migration. The contract-based role emphasizes strong modern language skills and cloud observability experience.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with a modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on knowledge of OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, and logs.
• Experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong ability to read/modify YAML/JSON manifests and work with HTTP APIs.
• Background in testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites ensuring telemetry correctness.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing data to OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and assist platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote global role collaborates with US/LATAM teams to instrument applications and update manifests for a scalable monitoring stack.

You will validate telemetry, update dashboards, and troubleshoot edge cases while ensuring zero loss of monitoring coverage during migration. The contract-based role emphasizes strong modern language skills and cloud observability experience.