Senior Backend Engineer: OpenTelemetry & Observability

Seeds Renewables; Tandil; Remote; ARS 127,737,000 - 234,184,000; Part time

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a remote contractor role. You will re-instrument apps, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will collaborate with global teams, update dashboards and runbooks, and ensure monitoring coverage remains uninterrupted throughout the migration window. English at advanced level is required.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms (e.g., New Relic).
• Strong understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment configs, and reading/modifying YAML/JSON manifests.
• Solid background in testing, debugging logs, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).
• Nice-to-have: Experience operating OTel Collectors in Kubernetes.
• Nice-to-have: Knowledge of FinOps and telemetry cost-optimization.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAMLs, environment variables, and deployment manifests per standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against New Relic data to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or attributes.
• Help update dashboards, docs, and runbooks for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and work with platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking of progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

OTel Collector

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry in a remote contractor role. You will re-instrument apps, adjust manifests, and validate telemetry outputs across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

You will collaborate with global teams, update dashboards and runbooks, and ensure monitoring coverage remains uninterrupted throughout the migration window. English at advanced level is required.