Senior Backend Engineer: OpenTelemetry Observability (Remote)

Coderio; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 149,026,000 - 255,474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payments

Remote work, international

Professional development

Public holidays in Argentina

Mentorship and collaboration

Job summary

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

Join a fully remote, global contractor role with advanced English requirements. You will coordinate with US/LATAM teams and contribute to dashboards, runbooks, and documentation while maintaining uninterrupted monitoring coverage.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with proficiency in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and transitioning off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configurations, environment variables, and deployment manifests per architecture standards.
• Execute tests and validation to ensure telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data to OTel outputs.
• Update dashboards, monitoring docs, and runbooks to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate collection/export errors and collaborate with core platform engineers.
• Maintain clear progress tracking and report migration risks.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Software engineering

Distributed tracing

Testing & debugging

Git & CI/CD

REST APIs

Tools

OTel Collector

Git

Kubernetes

Job description

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

Join a fully remote, global contractor role with advanced English requirements. You will coordinate with US/LATAM teams and contribute to dashboards, runbooks, and documentation while maintaining uninterrupted monitoring coverage.