Remote Senior Software Engineer — Observability & OTel

Virtustant; Rosario; Remote; ARS 131,359,000 - 185,448,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD payments

Argentine holidays

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. This remote, contractor role focuses on instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will re-instrument services, adjust dashboards, and ensure continuous monitoring without loss of coverage. Strong Java/Python/Go/JS maturity plus OpenTelemetry expertise are required.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts and Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD).
• Nice-to-have: experience with OTel Collectors in Kubernetes; FinOps knowledge for telemetry costs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing NR data against OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for OTel.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors with core platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of implementation progress and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

YAML/JSON

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

YAML/JSON

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. This remote, contractor role focuses on instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will re-instrument services, adjust dashboards, and ensure continuous monitoring without loss of coverage. Strong Java/Python/Go/JS maturity plus OpenTelemetry expertise are required.