Remote Senior Engineer — OpenTelemetry & Observability

Svitla Systems, Inc.; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Career development

Referral programs

Job summary

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

This is a remote, contractor role with global collaboration and a strong emphasis on reliability and observability. You will work across cloud observability domains, ensure end-to-end telemetry delivery, and update documentation and dashboards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with software testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from legacy systems to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML config files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry accuracy and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing old data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript/JavaScript

OpenTelemetry

Telemetry/Observability

CI/CD pipelines

Git

YAML/JSON manifests

Cloud platforms

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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

This is a remote, contractor role with global collaboration and a strong emphasis on reliability and observability. You will work across cloud observability domains, ensure end-to-end telemetry delivery, and update documentation and dashboards.