Senior Backend Engineer - Observability Migration (OTel)

Bluelightconsulting; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127.737.000 - 212.895.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Payment in USD

100% remote

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Zusammenfassung

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global, remote setting. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and ensure monitoring coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This contractor role requires strong coding, testing, and collaboration with platform engineers, with English at Advanced (C1). Remote work with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams; payments are in USD under contractor

Qualifikationen

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, and YAML/JSON manifests.
• Background in testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Aufgaben

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests according to established architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation and export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or resource attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring documentation, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and identify root causes with core platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking and reporting of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Kenntnisse

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

Git

CI/CD

Testing

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global, remote setting. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and ensure monitoring coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This contractor role requires strong coding, testing, and collaboration with platform engineers, with English at Advanced (C1). Remote work with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams; payments are in USD under contractor