Senior Backend Engineer: OTel Migration (Remote)

Ox Security; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 216,357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD payment

100% remote

Public holidays in Argentina

Job summary

Darwoft, a software factory providing IT staff augmentation, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is 100% remote with global coordination, requiring advanced English and strong experience in distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. Flexible contractor engagement with USD payments.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience with modern languages: Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and OTel Collector configurations.
• Strong cloud observability experience and migration from legacy platforms.
• Reading/modifying complex YAML/JSON manifests and APIs.
• Experience with testing, debugging logs, and validating telemetry data.
• Familiar with Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation suites to ensure telemetry is correctly generated and exported.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis against existing data to identify missing traces, metrics, or logs.
• Help update dashboards, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides for the new architecture.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Cloud observability

HTTP APIs

YAML/JSON

Testing & debugging

Git/CI-CD

Job description

Darwoft, a software factory providing IT staff augmentation, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, and validate telemetry across a high-scale fintech ecosystem.

The role is 100% remote with global coordination, requiring advanced English and strong experience in distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. Flexible contractor engagement with USD payments.