Senior Backend Engineer – OpenTelemetry & Observability

Bluelight; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 212,895,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contractor agreement with USD payments

100% remote work in an international/跨

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

As a contractor, you will collaborate with global teams, ensure end-to-end telemetry delivery, and help update dashboards and documentation while maintaining operational visibility throughout the migration.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against existing data to find missing traces, metrics, and logs.
• Update dashboards and runbooks to reflect the new OTel architecture.
• Investigate export issues and collaborate with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain progress tracking and risk reporting for migration.

Skills

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

YAML/JSON manifests

Distributed tracing

Git & CI/CD

Cloud observability

Tools

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry coverage across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

As a contractor, you will collaborate with global teams, ensure end-to-end telemetry delivery, and help update dashboards and documentation while maintaining operational visibility throughout the migration.