Remote Senior Software Engineer — OpenTelemetry Migration

Svitla Systems, Inc.; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD payments

Argentine holidays access

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role involves re-instrumentation, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will collaborate with US/LATAM/global teams, contribute to dashboards and playbooks, and ensure continuous monitoring coverage during the migration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) expertise including traces, metrics, logs, and Collector configurations.
• Cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong reading/modifying of complex YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.
• Solid testing, debugging, and validation of high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from legacy systems to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment configurations per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the new telemetry architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and work with platform engineers on edge cases.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

HTTP & APIs

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role involves re-instrumentation, updating manifests, and validating telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will collaborate with US/LATAM/global teams, contribute to dashboards and playbooks, and ensure continuous monitoring coverage during the migration.