Senior Backend Engineer — OpenTelemetry Lead (Remote)

Bluelightconsulting; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 85,158,000 - 149,026,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Referral programs

Job summary

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

The role requires strong software engineering skills in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, deep OpenTelemetry expertise, and experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites for telemetry outputs.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection issues with platform engineers.
• Track implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java, Python, Go or JavaScript/TypeSct

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging telemetry

Git CI/CD workflows

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry Collector

Job description

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

The role requires strong software engineering skills in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, deep OpenTelemetry expertise, and experience with Kubernetes or containerized environments.