Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

It Labs; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 216,357,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Argentine holidays

Core platform observability

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while collaborating with US/LATAM teams.

This is a contractor role with 100% remote work. You should have strong experience with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, Kubernetes familiarity, and solid testing/CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language.
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry concepts, including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTEL Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong testing, debugging, and validation of high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with version control and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry settings from legacy to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, environment configs, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests/validation to ensure telemetry is accurately generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing data to OTEL outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java/Python/Go/JS

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech environment while collaborating with US/LATAM teams.

This is a contractor role with 100% remote work. You should have strong experience with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, Kubernetes familiarity, and solid testing/CI/CD practices.