Remote Senior Backend Engineer: OpenTelemetry Observability

Alignerr Corp.; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Payment in USD

Argentine public holidays

Professional development resources

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment.

This remote contractor role requires strong coding skills in Java, Python, Go, or TS, deep OpenTelemetry know-how, and experience with Kubernetes and modern delivery pipelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering with proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Strong YAML/JSON config skills.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation and export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic and OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors with core platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

YAML/JSON

Git & CI/CD

Kubernetes

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment.

This remote contractor role requires strong coding skills in Java, Python, Go, or TS, deep OpenTelemetry know-how, and experience with Kubernetes and modern delivery pipelines.