Senior Backend Engineer — Observability with OTel (Remote)

Team8; Ciudad de Mendoza; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

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

The role is fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams, with English at Advanced (C1). You will ensure continuous monitoring coverage during migration and contribute to dashboards and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics and logs.
• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Deep understanding of cloud observability and migration from legacy platforms.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Java, Python, Go or TS/JS

YAML/JSON manifests

CI/CD

Git

Debugging

Tools

Kubernetes

OTel Collector

Job description

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

The role is fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams, with English at Advanced (C1). You will ensure continuous monitoring coverage during migration and contribute to dashboards and runbooks.