Senior Backend Engineer — Observability Migration (Remote)

Quik Hire Staffing; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 108,178,000 - 169,994,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement with payment in U

100% remote work in an international

Argentine public holidays access

Professional development and referral

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a remote, global setting. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams.

Responsibilities include updating dashboards, troubleshooting telemetry gaps, and ensuring continuous monitoring during migration.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TS/JS).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts (tracing, metrics, logs) and OTel Collector configurations.
• Strong knowledge of cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Experience with Git, PRs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from legacy to OpenTelemetry.
• Update configuration files and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Execute tests to verify telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported correctly.
• Analyze telemetry gaps by comparing current data with OTEL outputs, identify missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON

Git CI/CD

Testing

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a remote, global setting. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem while coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams.

Responsibilities include updating dashboards, troubleshooting telemetry gaps, and ensuring continuous monitoring during migration.