Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Cloud Native & OTel

Centro de e-Learning; Municipio de Rincón de los Sauces; Remote; ARS 139,086,000 - 200,903,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

Remote work

Argentine public holidays

Professional development

Learning platforms

Referral programs

Job summary

Darwoft, a software factory delivering solutions for international clients, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our high-scale platform. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure uninterrupted monitoring coverage.

In this remote contractor role, you will coordinate with US, LATAM, and global teams, apply best practices in testing, dashboards, and runbooks, and contribute to a

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.
• 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 application instrumentation, tracing, and telemetry configurations from New Relic to OpenTelemetry.
• Update YAML configuration files, environment variables, and deployment manifests according to established architecture standards.
• Execute unit tests and validation suites to verify that telemetry is accurately generated, transformed, and exported to target backends.
• Perform telemetry gap analysis, comparing existing New Relic data against OTel outputs to identify missing traces, metrics, logs, or resource attributes.
• Assist in updating dashboards, monitoring documentation, and troubleshooting guides to reflect the OTel architecture.
• Investigate telemetry collection and export errors, identifying root causes and collaborating with core platform engineers on complex edge cases.
• Maintain clear tracking and reporting of implementation progress, edge cases, and potential migration risks.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Git

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

OTel Collector

YAML/JSON manifests

New Relic (legacy)

Job description

Darwoft, a software factory delivering solutions for international clients, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead an observability migration from New Relic to OpenTelemetry across our high-scale platform. You will re-instrument applications, update manifests, validate telemetry, and ensure uninterrupted monitoring coverage.

In this remote contractor role, you will coordinate with US, LATAM, and global teams, apply best practices in testing, dashboards, and runbooks, and contribute to a