Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Darwoft; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 276,763,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor USD payment

100% remote

Global collaboration

Argentina holidays

Job summary

Darwoft, a software factory delivering custom software for international clients, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Observability Migration. This contractor role focuses on migrating telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a high-scale fintech platform.

You will instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring during the migration window, working across US/LATAM teams remotely.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) experience across tracing, metrics, and logs.
• Strong cloud observability expertise and migration from legacy platforms.
• Solid knowledge of HTTP, APIs, and environment-based configurations.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Modern languages

OpenTelemetry

Observability

HTTP & APIs

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

YAML

JSON

Job description

Darwoft, a software factory delivering custom software for international clients, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Observability Migration. This contractor role focuses on migrating telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a high-scale fintech platform.

You will instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure continuous monitoring during the migration window, working across US/LATAM teams remotely.