Senior Backend Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

Quik Hire Staffing; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 255,474,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Global collaboration

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global contractor role. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is fully remote with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. Strong experience with OpenTelemetry and modern languages is required. This is a contractor position paid in USD.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics and logs.
• Experience migrating telemetry from legacy platforms to OpenTelemetry.
• Strong ability to read and modify YAML/JSON manifests and environment configs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests per standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers.
• Track progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Tools

YAML

JSON manifests

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a global contractor role. You will instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is fully remote with coordination across US, LATAM, and global teams. Strong experience with OpenTelemetry and modern languages is required. This is a contractor position paid in USD.