Remote Senior Backend Engineer for OpenTelemetry Migration

Darwoft; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 170,316,000 - 298,053,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (global)

USD payment for contractor

Argentine holidays

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests while ensuring uninterrupted monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires hands-on OTel knowledge, experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments, and strong testing/debugging skills. This is a fully remote, contractor engagement supporting global teams.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in a modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: distributed tracing, metrics, logs, OTel Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, config management, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with testing, log analysis, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests, environment variables, and configs per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Help update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and liaise with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking, edge cases, and migration risk reporting.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Tools

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications and update infrastructure manifests while ensuring uninterrupted monitoring across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires hands-on OTel knowledge, experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments, and strong testing/debugging skills. This is a fully remote, contractor engagement supporting global teams.