Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry Observability (Remote)

Fullstack Labs, Inc.; Tandil; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 185,448,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

USD payments

Global collaboration

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This fully remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams and focuses on instrumenting applications, updating infrastructure manifests, and validatingTelemetry outputs.

Ideal candidates have strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on OTel experience, and familiarity with modern delivery pipelines.

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 concepts, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Deep experience with cloud observability paradigms and transitioning off legacy platforms like New Relic.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, APIs, environment-based configurations, and reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests.
• Strong background in software testing, debugging log analysis, and validating high-cardinality telemetry data.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery workflows (Git, PRs, CI/CD pipelines).

Responsibilities

• Migrate existing instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify telemetry generation, transformation, and export.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data against OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring documentation, and troubleshooting guides for the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection/export errors and collaborate with core platform engineers on edge cases.
• Maintain tracking and reporting of implementation progress, edge cases, and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

OpenTelemetry

YAML/JSON manifests

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. This fully remote, contractor role coordinates with US/LATAM/global teams and focuses on instrumenting applications, updating infrastructure manifests, and validatingTelemetry outputs.

Ideal candidates have strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on OTel experience, and familiarity with modern delivery pipelines.