Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Puente Talent Partners; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 191,605,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

USD payments

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our services. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a remote, contractor model with global teams.

You will collaborate with platform engineers to fix gaps, update dashboards, and ensure uninterrupted monitoring coverage during the migration window, leveraging your strong background in tracing, metrics, and logs.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry experience across tracing, metrics, logs.
• Experience migrating observability from legacy platforms to OpenTelemetry.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest editing and API familiarity.
• Experience with Git, PRs, and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation and telemetry configurations from legacy to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is generated and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis and identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, documentation, and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Tracing

CI/CD

Git workflows

APIs/HTTP

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry Collector

YAML

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our services. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry end-to-end in a remote, contractor model with global teams.

You will collaborate with platform engineers to fix gaps, update dashboards, and ensure uninterrupted monitoring coverage during the migration window, leveraging your strong background in tracing, metrics, and logs.