Remote Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration

CXT Software; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 106,447,000 - 191,605,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Exposure to modern observability stack

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role collaborates with global teams across the US, LATAM, and beyond, ensuring seamless telemetry coverage during the migration of a high-scale fintech platform.

You'll instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate outputs while maintaining critical monitoring throughout the transition.

Qualifications

• Proficient in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts (distributed tracing, metrics, logs).
• Experience migrating observability from legacy platforms.
• Strong ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation to verify telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported properly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTEL outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role collaborates with global teams across the US, LATAM, and beyond, ensuring seamless telemetry coverage during the migration of a high-scale fintech platform.

You'll instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate outputs while maintaining critical monitoring throughout the transition.