Remote Senior Backend Engineer - OTel Migration

Pearl; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a fully remote, contractor role with coordination across US/LATAM/global teams. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering experience in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, deep OTel knowledge, and a background in

Qualifications

• Must-Have: strong software engineering background with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) experience including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configs.
• Deep cloud observability experience and migration from New Relic.
• Solid YAML/JSON manifest editing and API understanding.
• Strong testing, debugging, and telemetry validation skills.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables to fit the new architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to confirm telemetry correctness.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

YAML/JSON manifests

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

HTTP APIs

Testing

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

New Relic

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust deployment manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a fully remote, contractor role with coordination across US/LATAM/global teams. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering experience in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, deep OTel knowledge, and a background in