Remote Sr. Software Engineer — Observability & OTel Migration

SupportYourApp; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 234,184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

Remote work (international)

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. The role focuses on re-instrumenting applications, updating manifests, validating telemetry, and ensuring continuous monitoring coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The position is 100% remote with global coordination across US/LATAM teams. Advanced English (C1) is required, and contractor engagement includes USD payments and access to global resources.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts and Collector configurations.
• Experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms.
• Strong YAML/JSON skills and API environment familiarity.
• Testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from legacy to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry output to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks reflecting the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export issues and collaborate with platform engineers.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Telemetry migration

Distributed tracing

YAML/JSON manifests

CI/CD

APIs/HTTP

Java/Python/Go/JS

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. The role focuses on re-instrumenting applications, updating manifests, validating telemetry, and ensuring continuous monitoring coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The position is 100% remote with global coordination across US/LATAM teams. Advanced English (C1) is required, and contractor engagement includes USD payments and access to global resources.