Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry & Observability

It Labs; Tandil; Remote; ARS 155,220,000 - 258,701,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

100% remote

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 re-instrument apps and adjust manifests across a high-scale fintech infrastructure in a remote, global setup.

You will validate telemetry outputs, bridge gaps between traces, metrics and logs, and contribute to dashboards and documentation while coordinating with cross-functional teams. This contractor role offers USD compensation and international collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go or JS/TS).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts including distributed tracing, metrics and logs.
• Deep experience with cloud observability and migrating from legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Strong ability to read/modify complex YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.
• Solid testing, debugging and telemetry data validation skills.
• Familiarity with Git, PRs and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configs from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update deployment manifests and environment variables per architecture standards.
• Run unit tests and validation to ensure correct telemetry export to backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against existing data and outputs.
• Update dashboards, docs and runbooks to reflect the OTEL architecture.
• Investigate telemetry errors and coordinate with platform engineers.
• Maintain progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Tools

OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector

YAML/JSON manifests

Git CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument apps and adjust manifests across a high-scale fintech infrastructure in a remote, global setup.

You will validate telemetry outputs, bridge gaps between traces, metrics and logs, and contribute to dashboards and documentation while coordinating with cross-functional teams. This contractor role offers USD compensation and international collaboration.