Remote Senior Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration

Fullstack; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 276,763,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

Public holidays

Professional development

Exposure to fintech observability

Job summary

Darwoft, a software factory, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams and demands deep telemetry expertise and strong CI/CD practices.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate outputs, and ensure monitoring coverage remains intact across a high-scale fintech ecosystem. English proficiency required.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, JS/TS).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts: distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment configs, and reading/modifying complex manifests.
• Solid testing, debugging, log analysis and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to confirm telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis between New Relic and OTel outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export issues and work with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

HTTP & APIs

Git & CI/CD

YAML/JSON manifests

Kubernetes

Tools

OTel Collector

YAML/JSON

Job description

Darwoft, a software factory, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams and demands deep telemetry expertise and strong CI/CD practices.

You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate outputs, and ensure monitoring coverage remains intact across a high-scale fintech ecosystem. English proficiency required.