Remote Senior Software Engineer – OpenTelemetry & Observability

Atomic Hr; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to a modern OpenTelemetry Collector-based setup. You will instrument applications, adjust dashboards, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires strong coding skills (Java, Python, Go, or TS/JS), deep OTel knowledge, and experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments. This is a remote, contractor position supporting global teams.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs and OTel Collector configurations.
• Strong understanding of cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across applications and infra.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Help update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and document migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration, moving telemetry from New Relic to a modern OpenTelemetry Collector-based setup. You will instrument applications, adjust dashboards, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role requires strong coding skills (Java, Python, Go, or TS/JS), deep OTel knowledge, and experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments. This is a remote, contractor position supporting global teams.