Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry & Observability

It Labs; Ciudad de Mendoza; Remote; ARS 154,540,000 - 231,811,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement with payment in✔

100% remote work in an international✔

Access to Argentine public holidays

Job summary

Darwoft, a software factory delivering solutions for international clients, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a contractor role with full-time commitment and global collaboration. You will work remotely with US/LATAM teams, using modern languages and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring uninterrupted

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering with proficiency in modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts, including tracing, metrics, logs, and collector configurations.
• Cloud observability expertise and migration from legacy platforms.
• Strong testing, debug logging, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configs, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validate telemetry output to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic vs OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Troubleshoot telemetry collection/export errors with platform engineers.
• Keep progress tracking and report migration risks clearly.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Cloud observability

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

YAML/JSON manifests

Kubernetes

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

OTel Collector

Job description

Darwoft, a software factory delivering solutions for international clients, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will instrument applications, update infrastructure manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

This is a contractor role with full-time commitment and global collaboration. You will work remotely with US/LATAM teams, using modern languages and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring uninterrupted