Senior Backend Engineer - OTel & Observability

Pragmatike; Tandil; Remote; ARS 120,727,000 - 189,714,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Payment in USD

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Job summary

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our cloud-native stack. This remote, contractor role focuses on instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry end-to-end while maintaining visibility.

You will work with global teams, ensure high coverage, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks during the migration, with emphasis on reliability and scalable monitoring.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering experience in at least one modern language (Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry concepts: tracing, metrics, logs, and Collector configs.
• Experience migrating from legacy observability platforms (e.g., New Relic) to OpenTelemetry.
• Strong YAML/JSON manifest editing and testing/ debugging telemetry.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Migrate instrumentation and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML files, environment variables, and deployment manifests.
• Run unit tests and validation to verify telemetry is generated, transformed, and exported correctly.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis comparing New Relic data with OpenTelemetry outputs.
• Assist in updating dashboards, docs and runbooks for the new architecture.
• Investigate telemetry errors with platform engineers and resolve edge cases.
• Track progress, edge cases and migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Tools

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Kubernetes

Job description

Darwoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our cloud-native stack. This remote, contractor role focuses on instrumenting applications, updating manifests, and validating telemetry end-to-end while maintaining visibility.

You will work with global teams, ensure high coverage, and contribute to dashboards and runbooks during the migration, with emphasis on reliability and scalable monitoring.