Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Puente Talent Partners; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 137,974,000 - 206,960,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

100% remote work (global)

Argentine public holidays access

Professional development and learning

Job summary

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

This is a remote contractor position with global coordination, requiring strong across-team collaboration, testing, and documentation. Advanced English and exposure to LATAM/US time zones are beneficial.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configs.
• Cloud observability experience and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests; APIs and HTTP fundamentals.
• Testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiar with Git and modern CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment vars, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly produced and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate export errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Track progress, risks, and mitigations throughout the migration.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed tracing

Telemetry

Tools

Kubernetes

YAML/JSON manifests

Git

Job description

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

This is a remote contractor position with global coordination, requiring strong across-team collaboration, testing, and documentation. Advanced English and exposure to LATAM/US time zones are beneficial.