Remote Sr. Software Engineer: Observability & OTel Migration

Ryz Labs; Santa Fe Capital; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor USD payment

100% remote work

Public holidays in Argentina

Modern observability platform upgrade

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem, ensuring continuous monitoring coverage.

The role emphasizes strong debugging, testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams, with 100% remote, USD payments, and international collaboration.

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 Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid background in testing, debugging, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, env vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against existing data to identify missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection issues and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

YAML

JSON

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead a critical observability migration from New Relic to an OpenTelemetry-based architecture. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem, ensuring continuous monitoring coverage.

The role emphasizes strong debugging, testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams, with 100% remote, USD payments, and international collaboration.