Senior Backend Engineer - Observability Migration (Remote)

Darwoft; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 224,207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work in international team

Access to Argentine public holidays

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role collaborates with global teams to instrument applications, update manifests, and validate end-to-end telemetry across our fintech-focused platform.

The ideal candidate has hands-on OTel experience, strong debugging and testing skills, and a track record of delivering high-visibility telemetry projects in cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests and config environments.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry outputs to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain clear progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This remote, contractor role collaborates with global teams to instrument applications, update manifests, and validate end-to-end telemetry across our fintech-focused platform.

The ideal candidate has hands-on OTel experience, strong debugging and testing skills, and a track record of delivering high-visibility telemetry projects in cloud-native environments.