Remote Senior Backend Engineer: OpenTelemetry Migration

Darwoft; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 191,605,000; Part time

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role targets a global, LATAM-friendly timezone alignment and focuses on instrumenting applications, updating configs, and ensuring telemetry coverage.

You will validate telemetry outputs, maintain dashboards, and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases while contributing to modern observability practices within a fintech-like infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry expertise, including traces, metrics, logs, and Collector configs.
• Strong cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms.
• Ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience testing, debugging, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across apps and infra.
• Update manifests, env vars, and deployment configs per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry correctness.
• Analyze telemetry gaps and validate outputs against backends.
• Document migration steps, runbooks, and dashboards; support monitoring continuity.

Skills

Modern language proficiency (Java, Py,

OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Git, PRs, CI/CD

Testing & debugging telemetry

Kubernetes (Nice-to-have)

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role targets a global, LATAM-friendly timezone alignment and focuses on instrumenting applications, updating configs, and ensuring telemetry coverage.

You will validate telemetry outputs, maintain dashboards, and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases while contributing to modern observability practices within a fintech-like infrastructure.