Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry Migration (Remote)

Fullstack Labs, Inc.; Tandil; Remote; ARS 120,727,000 - 206,960,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

Remote work

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

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

This contractor role is fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM and global teams. Strong OpenTelemetry, cloud observability, and Kubernetes experience are essential for delivering stable monitoring and effective runbooks.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, env vars, and deployment manifests to match architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTEL outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or resource attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection errors and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks clearly.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

YAML/JSON manifests

Git/CI/CD

Tools

OpenTelemetry Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

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

This contractor role is fully remote, coordinating with US/LATAM and global teams. Strong OpenTelemetry, cloud observability, and Kubernetes experience are essential for delivering stable monitoring and effective runbooks.