Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Observability Migration

Werben HR LLC; Tandil; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement with USD payment

100% remote work

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a distributed, high-scale fintech ecosystem. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end while coordinating with global teams.

The role emphasizes strong testing, troubleshooting, and documentation, with 100% remote work and USD contract payments. Excellent English (C1) is required for international collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment configurations, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid software testing, debugging, and telemetry data validation skills.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests, environment variables, and YAML configurations per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure accurate telemetry generation and export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing Old vs OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel setup.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking and reporting of progress, risks, and milestones.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a distributed, high-scale fintech ecosystem. You will instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end while coordinating with global teams.

The role emphasizes strong testing, troubleshooting, and documentation, with 100% remote work and USD contract payments. Excellent English (C1) is required for international collaboration.