Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Coderio; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 258,701,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

USD payments

Job summary

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our cloud-native stack. You will instrument services, update manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is contractor, fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams. Advanced English required; strong automation and testing background preferred.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry outputs and backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data against OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Assist updating dashboards, monitoring documentation, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors with core platform engineers.
• Maintain tracking of implementation progress and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Git/CI/CD

HTTP APIs

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Darwoft seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our cloud-native stack. You will instrument services, update manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is contractor, fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM/global teams. Advanced English required; strong automation and testing background preferred.