Remote Senior Software Engineer - Observability Migration (OTel)

Trueml Technology, Llc; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor USD payments

100% remote work

Public holidays in Argentina

Professional development resources

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a high-scale fintech infrastructure. You will re-instrument applications and update manifests while ensuring full monitoring coverage during the migration.

The role emphasizes deep experience with OTEL, distributed tracing, and cloud observability, with remote collaboration across LATAM and Global teams.

Qualifications

• Proficient in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts and Collector configurations.
• Strong experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is properly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against existing data to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Modern programming language

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a high-scale fintech infrastructure. You will re-instrument applications and update manifests while ensuring full monitoring coverage during the migration.

The role emphasizes deep experience with OTEL, distributed tracing, and cloud observability, with remote collaboration across LATAM and Global teams.