Senior Backend Engineer – OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Bluelightconsulting; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in international setting

Payment in USD

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a high-scale fintech platform. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry outputs to ensure continuous monitoring coverage.

The role is remote with global coordination; strong experience in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and modern cloud observability is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts, including traces, metrics, logs, and Collector configs.
• Experience migrating from legacy observability platforms to modern solutions.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest editing and reading.
• Familiar with Git and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across apps and infra.
• Update YAML configs, env vars, and deployment manifests to match architecture.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correct and exported.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to resolve edge cases and risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON manifests

Git

CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

YAML

JSON manifests

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across a high-scale fintech platform. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry outputs to ensure continuous monitoring coverage.

The role is remote with global coordination; strong experience in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and modern cloud observability is essential.